Let them plunge. Fuck these useless megaplexes of pointless concrete ruining cities and entire areas.

"But corporates who are seeing maybe an average of one to two days a week in the office, they are really wanting to drive higher occupancy rates, because they see the benefits of collaboration, innovation. That kind of comes from people face-to-face in the office".

The other element — mentioned by everyone from CEOs and executives to human resources leaders and academics — is about the mentorship and training of younger staff.

"That," Mr Broderick notes, "is really hard to replicate from home”

Is anyone actually swallowing this tripe?

If you have management that tries to push for a return, give them this article from Microsoft and request a discussion of its many points.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hybrid-work-is-just-work

WFH, particularly in 2020-2021, was the opportunity for managers to learn how to effectively manage remotely, using metrics and good planning practices. Those who failed to do so should be the ones questioned as to why they should remain as managers.

Had a manager go on about all the collab and help he got when starting out at the company and how important the connections are etc.

Someone else pointed out that if you can’t get help using MS teams then you have a problem. Plus it’s 2023 - no need to stuck to old ways of work.

When I’m in the office, I’m wearing headphones to try and block the noise from the random hot desking people from random parts of the business all talking loudly on teams calls. The business has multiple physical locations in various states hence the teams calls. There’s no chatting or “water cooler” talk.

I cannot work in these conditions nor do I want to spend 2 hours each way commuting to waste my day like this. It’s my personal hell.

Perhaps they could refit the properties to HOUSE people.

Not mine. My company likes money more than control so we're getting a smaller space for our servers & meetings.

They don't give a shit about our landlord's money problems.

The free market is showing assholes! Fuck your capital!

Senior managers ran teams across regions and timezones for years now. How can the same managers say it doesn't work?

Wait wait..... investments carry risk? No, that can't be, push that shit downhill.

Fuck that. I'm happy people's lives are finally getting a bit more chill. And I bet no efficiency has to be sacrificed, just tradition.

And let's face it, suit and tie and glass facades aren't exactly valuable culture. I wonder if you could even keep one of those buildings standing for longer than 20 years for posterior, because they're not designed to last.

"Everyone back to the office!"

I don’t know why people keep claiming that companies are asking people to come back so their property will increase in value. The value of your property has nothing to do with how many people you put in the building, it’s how many people a BUYER wants to put in the building.

The reason people are asking employees to come back is because of sunk cost fallacies (we bought this shit and should use it), or the fact that some leaders just don’t know how to work remotely well.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Everything is colliding for employees, bosses and the owners of commercial properties as the "work from home" trend cements itself as a standard part of most office workers' lives.

"Things like this don't usually change so quickly in the labour market," notes Matt Cowgill, senior economist for jobs website Seek.

ANZ staff face a cut to their annual bonuses if they don't spend at least 50 per cent of their scheduled working hours in the office, according to a report in the Australian Financial Review.

Origin Energy reportedly demands all employees based in an office spend at least 40 per cent of their time there and has started linking attendance to performance reviews and bonuses.

The bank warned that bonuses — which are a substantial proportion of some salary packages in the financial services field — could be docked if workers failed to turn up at the office for least three days a week.

More luxurious meeting rooms, better "end-of-trip" facilities for bike riders and walkers and nicer kitchens are just some of the elements rental agents say clients want.

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I know no company that would dislike paying less when they need a new headquarter due to the companies growth. In fact two companies I worked in had to move because of expansion and it was a big effort to find good new accessible headquarters with room for even more growth that weren't overpriced. It took them a long time to find and choose one. It got really crammed during the search and they had to rent a floor of a neighbouring building and link the networks via encrypted directional radio to buy time.