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?

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Why would the shareholders of a company want them to take on additional unnecessary expenses like leasing office space?

    Or rather, why do real estate company shareholders have such ridiculous levels of influence compared to other groups who would logically prefer more wfh?

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      11 months ago

      It’s insidious.

      It’s not influence as in “let’s have a logical and transparent discussion about wfh vs on premise”.

      It’s rumours, back channel favours, manipulating numbers, etcetera.

      Bear in mind not all companies are publicly traded. Plenty of closely held companies were started by grand dad and run on rumour and here say.