> A couple days later the landlord came back, standing firm on 5-year extension, plus an across the board rental increase of about 8%, plus a baked-in annual increase of 6%, plus an additional levy for a new HVAC system on the roof.

Yikes. Sounds like great timing too.

This was the most interesting data point to me, and was an interesting counterpoint to easyDNS's realization that they were essentially a remote-employee only company. It also made me realize that "the cloud" isn't just a place where software goes, but where organizations can now go. (This is probably glaringly obvious to many others, but I'd never really thought of the cloud this way.)

Virtual organizations [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_organization

Honestly seemed a bit low for current Toronto real estate conditions. Still, good move all things considered as long as they can properly manage the challenges for a fully remote team.

Great to see this. GitLab also went all remote because people stopped showing up to the office we rented in San Francisco.

Seconded. Office culture is a dinosaur.

For some stuff. Have fun building airplanes without a warehouse and a breakroom. Similarly, I doubt that the scientists of the world will be jumping at the opportunity to blow up their own houses.

I think you're getting "office" confused with "warehouse" and "laboratory".

People who work in ‘labs’, ‘warehouses’, and ‘manufacturing lines’ may also work in ‘offices’ throughout the day. For many engineers these spaces aren’t in isolation.

Great - but those people don't just work in an office then, do they?

The vast majority of people who just work in an office, don't necessarily need to be in that specific office to do it.

By the title, I've thought they're going out of business.