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Less tin foil hat reasoning that I've found: managers are lonely. CEOs are lonely. Especially when you have the space that is empty it's kinda depressing.

The tricky thing is if you have the office you gotta have space for a lot of people, even if the "ideal" amount might be a smaller space that would just feel fuller in hybrid environments.

In a recent Kojima Productions video, Kojima said something like "yeah we have the new office... please come in everyone!" It's an uphill battle, accentuated by people putting offices in places where you are doing close to office XOR low rent.