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Care to explain?

• bloppe 3y ago
  Coming to the office has to be significantly more productive than working from home for it to make sense after accounting for the astronomical costs of office space in major cities.
  • codeduck 3y ago
    This smells like a sunk-cost fallacy. My counterargument would be that there has been a massive captive market for commercial real-estate that has now, thanks to high-bandwidth networking, been exposed as superfluous. The pandemic ripped the bandage off our collective eyes. People are now seeing that it is not necessary to jam employees cheek-by-jowl in order to extract value from them.
  • hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
    > Coming to the office has to be significantly more productive than working from home for it to make sense after accounting for the astronomical costs of office space in major cities. It doesn't "have to be", there's other explanations. For example, maybe working from the office is less productive than wfh, but no one has figured that out yet.
• Guthur 3y ago
  There is considerable wealth tied to continuing to herd us all into the cities. If economic activity was to become increasingly decentralised that wealth would be at considerable risk. A lot of that wealth is held by very powerful and influential companies. It's not a massive leap to assume it's in their best interests to encourage a return to the office. A few choice editorials espousing loss of culture and productivity and good old group think will start to kick in.
  • Guthur 3y ago
    But either way the last in line to be considered will be you, your family or the environment.