A lot of times, when people discuss the phenomenon of employers ending work-from-home and try to make their employees come back to the office, people say that the motivation is to raise real estate prices.

I don’t follow the logic at all. How would doing this benefit an employer in any way?

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    1 year ago

    I have seen this happen first hand. My friend works for a company headed by a founder CEO who is famously progressive. In the hight of the pandemic they even stated that they’d go WFH indefinitely. Past forward a couple of years they have finished constructing a shiny big new office building at the heart of the city. Now every one is being asked to come to the office 5 days a week.

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      1 year ago

      Funny how they ask us to go to the office but keep building their offices where none of their employees can afford to live

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        1 year ago

        But hey, if you aren’t burning many gallons of fuel per day stuck in traffic for hours while being very stressed for a job you could’ve done from home, are you even an adult?