Re:Death of the Office
by munificent on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:17PM
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> The obvious problem is this is the most expensive of all solutions.
Is that actually true? The company isn't paying people to maintain their home offices. Any day where everyone works from home is a day where they don't need to have cleaning staff, food services, etc. come in. It may seem inefficient to have the building sitting there empty, but relative to having people there (and not relative to having no building at all), it's probably a net win.
Think about how many restaurants in prime real estate locations are closed for breakfast or on Mondays.
Is that actually true? The company isn't paying people to maintain their home offices. Any day where everyone works from home is a day where they don't need to have cleaning staff, food services, etc. come in. It may seem inefficient to have the building sitting there empty, but relative to having people there (and not relative to having no building at all), it's probably a net win.
Think about how many restaurants in prime real estate locations are closed for breakfast or on Mondays.