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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by ajsnigrutin on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:31AM (#35271836)
It's hard to transform many office buildings into residential spaces, unless you demolish them and rebuild.

Office buildings usually have huge floorplans while residential places require windows, so any space within ~5-6meters from the wall is basically useless (bathrooms, elevator shafts, storage spacce, stairways and not much else can be positioned there)

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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by tkgally on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:12AM (#35272442)
The New York Times had a nice interactive article recently for subscribers showing how some office buildings can be and have been converted to residential. Most of the illustrations that tell the story didn’t seem to get captured by the Wayback Machine, unfortunately:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230317112255/https://www.nytim...

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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by francisofascii on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:49AM (#35273253)
Then demolish and rebuild. No reason to delay the inevitable.
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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by xtiansimon on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:54AM (#35273302)
Why not SROs? They’re notorious for thin walls.
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