[gumby]

I agree with you but many cities can't see it that way.

There's an infrastructure of service businesses (restaurants, tailors, hair cutters) and retailers who depend on the foot traffic of office workers. They are suffering too. There's a critical density of foot traffic that makes a city survive. I feel intuitively that that density is lower than one might expect, but the data may not bear that out.

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Last week my GF went into the office for the first time (she switched employers in the autumn of 2020) for the new "three days office two days WFH" schedule. That was on Monday, the program's first day. She spent the time on Teams calls same as when she was at home. She hasn't been in since and nobody has said anything.

I thought it would be fun to to drive up with her for some moral support. I found out I could get a wework in the building next to her for $29. Turns out for $29 what was actually on offer was an entire floor. It wasn't only me -- people came to service the kitchen during the day.

[netizen-936824]

Dynamics change, just because we used to do something is not a reason to keep doing it forever

That's simply how life works, its dynamic and constantly changing

New businesses and business models will evolve and change as they always have