There are not that many executive managers, and they get to decide what to do with floor space. It's like setting your own salary, which they also get to do. C

There are not that many executive managers, and they get to decide what to do with floor space. It's like setting your own salary, which they also get to do. Could this have something to do with economics as well? There are high returns to working in big concentrated cities. So if rents in city centres are expensive, but people still want to work specifically there, they will compromise instead by paying for less office space. How much more expensive would it be to give everyone an average of 90sqft (8.36m^2) of space? Not that any of this is good, but to pin this undesirable outcome on a specific cause, I think one would need more precise evidence.