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I don't buy this narrative. While it may very well be true that real estate is going down and ruining some companies and people, which makes me very happy, I doubt this is the reason why companies are pushing people to office.
IMO they're simply dumb controle freaks. When people are at the office, they can push their propaganda of corporate culture in the hope that some workers will buy it a become some kind of ambassador for their twisted model.
There probably is also the same stupid generalisation that made open space a generality: some idiot with way too much power prefered to work this way, and thus he assumed everyone would. It was turned into company policy, and because this company earned some money this year it turned into a fashion for all companies.
I think it's a combination of both.
There's no "it". The amount of businesses that can technically function using remote workers is a MINORITY of total businesses. Retail workers can't work remotely. Surgeons can't work remotely. Farmers can't work remotely. Restaurant staff can't work remotely. Students should NOT learn remotely. My company can't manufacture things remotely. AKA the jobs that make the world go 'round.
Yea, accountants, bankers, wall st, programmers, etc can work remote. But their bosses don't want them to, and now they are fighting. They are not the majority. The thing these people have in common is MONEY and a cushy lifestyle. That's being disturbed, so now you have to hear about it. The money controls the media.
I do see a lot of articles targeted at ceo's on LinkedIn by real estate/office. So there is definitely a degree to it.
Micromanagement is also a factor here however a company can also install monitoring software on your laptop by company policy like mine did.
They can't do that without unions allowing it in France, and unions are not ready to allow it yet. Articles are good evidences though for loans.
Yeah France did great there, saldy no such luck in the UK and low union membership in tech
They probably have some tax breaks specifically around buildings and people in them
Tax breaks? Most companies are paying leases on their office space, minus the ones big enough to build their own campuses.
I didn't think about the "ambassador" angle. It probably is harder to get employees to drink the company koolaid when they're not physically in the office.