You buy land, buildings, out have a contract for these types of things. When there nobody at these locations it makes it appear that these were bad decisions rather than the fact that there was a black swan event that caused a paradigm shift. Some walnut will try to say that the writing was on the walls about covid or about the benefits of remote work but that's mostly contingent on post hoc analysis rather than is situ. And as they say: hindsight is 20/20...

Tldr: fear of looking bad because metrics are more important than actual results