[jonathankoren]

It's sunk cost fallacy -- especially at the FAANGs. These companies spent billions on monuments to the company's greatness. These buildings, MPK 20 & 22, The Donut, Amazon HQ2, the Circus Tents, aren't just unsellable from the psychological sense, they're unsellable in a practical sense. The number of companies that need/want 2.8 million ft2 (262,000 m2) of nigh-undivided office space can be counted on one hand -- and all of these already have their own white elephant.

Mix in monkey-see-monkey-do management of smaller firms, and of course straight up class antagonism towards workers, and you've got RTO über alles.

[aleph_minus_one]

> The number of companies that need/want 2.8 million ft2 (262,000 m2) of nigh-undivided office space can be counted on one hand -- and all of these already have their own white elephant.

I partially disagree: if necessary, rent out various parts of this office space to multiple companies.

[jonathankoren]

These buildings aren’t designed for subdivision, and attempting to subdivide them, probably would cost 100s of millions.

For instance, MPK 2x are essentially airplane hangers.

[rocgf]

Totally agree with this, I’m just saying that few, if any, companies would make the decision to force people back in the office based on the well-being of cities or the real estate market.

All companies act in their best interest and that’s kind of it.

[jonathankoren]

But this isn’t acting in their best interest. It’s acting on the personal feeling of inadequacy of the execs. That’s it.