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mmmirele8/29/2023 5:16:52 pm PDT

Lawhawk noted (correctly, I believe) two threads back that there’s no reason for most people to return to office and stated as reasons why RTO is being pushed is:

The bosses that want butts in the seats are those who need headcounts - like for tax credit purposes - or because they’re micromanagers. Or both.

I have a third reason, based on my experience working in commercial real estate for a too big to fail bank back in the day. Most commercial properties have loans on them. And paying back those loans requires that the buildings in question have a rather high rate of occupancy. Back in the day, you couldn’t get a loan unless you could guarantee at least 85% occupancy. These guarantees (at least for office buildings) came in the form of long term leases. Therefore, pushing butts into seats in offices is necessary to keep what has likely been an overheated (for years) market from collapsing.

However, my evil too big to fail employer

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*shakes head*