[mym1990]

There is certainly worry that as lease contracts expire, the combination of higher interest rates and vacant offices will create huge losses for real estate developers, and these can cause a cascading domino effect of further losses.

How the communication flows from the government or RE developers to executives is beyond my understanding, but it looks like there is not much willingness to rethink how corporate office space can be used in other ways, and more willingness to just go back to the status quo.