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Re:Working from home is powering productivity by EasyMark on Friday October 11, 2024 @11:05PM (#41816060)
There are tons of articles out there about mayors/council members/ etc pressuring execs to get butts in office seats for the past few years. I don’t know if that counts as data to you or not, but they are relatively easy to find in a google search.
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Re:Working from home is powering productivity by berniedurfee on Friday October 11, 2024 @11:36PM (#41816195)
It’s the other way round many times. Companies get fat tax breaks to move into a particular town or city.

Those tax breaks are explicitly contingent on butts being physically in seats to add to the economy and tax revenue of that municipality.

Too few butts in seats triggers penalties or revoking of the tax breaks altogether.

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Re:Working from home is powering productivity by jnordwick on Monday October 14, 2024 @07:44AM (#41836605)
>Too few butts

/Dr Mephisto enters the chat/

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Re:Working from home is powering productivity by dehrmann on Saturday October 12, 2024 @02:25AM (#41816914)
City governments have no leverage to pressure businesses with, though.
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