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Re:Quora goes permanently remote-first by chippy on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:16AM (#23650132)
this is the wework model. Instead of the companies running the offices, the companies pay the workers to use 3rd party offices.
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Re:Quora goes permanently remote-first by toyg on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:53AM (#23650963)
It’s the AWS model applied to real estate: move that $$$ from CapEx to OpEx, woot!
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Re:Quora goes permanently remote-first by blaser-waffle on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:53AM (#23652625)
Office leases were always OpEx mang
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Re:Quora goes permanently remote-first by toyg on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:46AM (#23653300)
You're right, I was thinking Old Businesses who actually bought their real estate (long-term thinking, such madness!)
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Re:Quora goes permanently remote-first by renewiltord on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:07PM (#23653556)
As it so happens, in the long term they were all dead.
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