Knowledge workers are nominally expensive but compared to real estate? The company’s actual liquid cash outlay to a highly-paid knowledge worker barely covers t

Knowledge workers are nominally expensive but compared to real estate? The company’s actual liquid cash outlay to a highly-paid knowledge worker barely covers the mortgage payment on a mediocre house an hour away. Tech workers are rich in many things, but not square feet. The company renting palatial amounts of class A space on their behalf could be tantamount to doubling wages, and I bet most people would take the wages.