I do think occasional f2f meetings are good, but 1/week is more than enough for any workgroup
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It’s not so much a management/leadership skill though, so much as a sort of reality distortion move. Keep them in your reality through most of their working hours and not comparing with alt realities. Not a bad motive, but detention realities are like weak authoritarian states
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Redevelop as residential and solve housing 😀
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I've felt this way as well. All the "you're ruining it for yourself" articles seem really well coordinated, like it's funded by people who own corporate real estate.
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Feel for small businesses that rely on foot traffic, but most eateries in business districts tend to be corporate chains that took $ intended for small-biz PPP, so redeploy the capital into dark kitchens + delivery. Compete with the home kitchen on better food.
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Millennials are killing small businesses.
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But yeah, WFH people also need to develop a more suitable work ethic. Learning needed on both sides.
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I recall being at a talk by an urbanist doing an analysis ~2018 showing heat signature of a global subprime real estate boom by hedge funds/PE/oligarchs etc. If they’re left holding the bag here a) they deserve it b) should not be bailed out c) are using small biz for cover
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Have noticed this as well. It’s weirdly hard to find vacancy data and everything I find seems to point to steady and continued rise in vacancies. Also liquidity for these office buildings seems to be unavailable
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I’m not doing a bit here. I’m normally very anti-conspiratorial and suspect conspiracy types of crediting their boogeymen with way too much power and intelligence. But this is a special case. Commercial real estate is highly concentrated and financialized. Smells like a rat here.
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You don’t need secret sex parties by Eyes Wide Shut elites for thus. You just need an investor nudging an editor here, an editor commissioning a Gladwell there, an op-ed section that’s a crony club. A politician with a board seat somewhere and a pro-small-biz campaign…
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Older Gen X and Boomers managers have also gotten lazy managing for decades a certain way and don’t want to change or give up corner offices, holding court, etc. Even without a hard financial stake in real estate, it’s more convenient to side with them than learn new skills
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Damn. Maybe I should try to buy an office property instead of a house. Though I doubt my mortgage approval will carry over 😬
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Neat!
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Apparently there’s this metric tracking it from keyfob usage
. kastle.com/safety-wellnes
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Exhibit C. Notable that the keynoter set is at the forefront. They don’t have much of a career without speaker circuit economy on top of office economy. What do you want to bet the headliner keynote crowd is 95% against WFH? Hard to command $$$ speaking fees for virtual keynotes.
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I feel this is becoming a real movement now
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An actual preference cascade among elites does seem rather unlikely here. At least as a primary driver. Those tend to be simpler. There’s a degree of coordination here. Preference cascade might be amplifying it. twitter.com/scrivenix/stat
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Now how can I profit from this? 🤔
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Heh no org with the investigative resources to poke at this has the incentives to do so. At most a subreddit might nerd out over it. Someone go start r/returntoworkconspiracy
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I read one conspiracy thread and now I start getting these targeted adds.
they are out there
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Wait?
So 75% of them don’t regret quitting?
That seems like the bigger headline.
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Damn that’s some indicting truth right there. This reality gets buried in the current propaganda campaign.






