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A. This doesn't happen because many C-suite people have commercial property investments. B. Language issues, cultural issues, and time zone issues all have neg
by TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
A. This doesn't happen because many C-suite people have commercial property investments.
B. Language issues, cultural issues, and time zone issues all have negative effects.
C. Or it could mean labour is more productive because it has more free time and is less stressed. There's no pointless commute and some chores can be done in the background. Getting slightly distracted by laundry is far less of a loss to productivity than being constantly distracted by conversations, office noise, pointless meetings, and so on.
Your arguments are all MBA-level arguments, which means they look superficially convincing but they lack systemic insight.
There's plenty of evidence that happier workers are more productive. Treating workers like people instead of machinery has comprehensive business benefits. The only real cost is a reduction in the self-perceived relative status of the C-suite.
Essentially this is an argument about hierarchy and loss of face, and not so much about measurable business costs/benefits.
- hiatus 3y ago> This doesn't happen because many C-suite people have commercial property investments I keep reading this but have seen no evidence. Are you saying executives are invested in the buildings their companies occupy?
- bongodongobob 3y agoLol what? 100% yes. It's super common to have a separate holding company for the real estate that the business leases from.
- hiatus 3y agoSure, can you give examples of companies whose executives own the holding company their business leases real estate from?
- bongodongobob 3y agoIt's common practice afaik, there's no secret there. I used to work for one and they are small peanuts. Edit: Acme inc owns Acme Real Estate Co and Acme Operations Co. Operations Co leases from Real Estate Co. There's no funny business, it's just how a business might split its assets and liabilities.
- hiatus 3y agoThat's not an example of company executives personally profiting or being invested in the company's real estate though. The comment to which I replied implied that executives personally profited from the real estate. > This doesn't happen because many C-suite people have commercial property investments
- aynyc 3y agoI don't know the big companies. But a lot of smaller firms I used to install software systems own their own buildings (basically, a big residential house or a small warehouse). The company owner owns the building, the actual company leases the building to the owner.
- hiatus 3y agoA company owning its own building is common. The parent comment said "This doesn't happen because many C-suite people have commercial property investments" which doesn't sound like a business owning its own building.