[Aeolun]

> it's simply too costly for a company, that's why office spaces are often crowded

That’s nonsense. My company pays 25x more for my salary than the office space that houses me. Increasing the cost, or decreasing the utilization there is not going to move the needle.

At least, not considering how much extra salary would be needed for me to accept working in an overcrowded office.

[kkfx]

your salary it's 25 times the overall office cost? Maybe you are an top manager, an apical figure anyway, but how much it cost the office for all workers (grand total) vs their salary? Compute all office costs, cleaning, air conditioning/heating, surveillance and so on included.

[Aeolun]

The cost of the office is 1/25 the cost of salaries (this is central Tokyo btw, it doesn’t really get more expensive). The cost of cleaning, air conditioning, surveilance etc is a fraction of that (just as true for your own house/apartment).

You don’t have to be pedantic about it to see that it’s fairly irrelevant in terms of cost.

[kkfx]

All summed:

- office (rent or property)

- furniture, including all safety equipment

- energy

- surveillance

It's just 1/25 of the salaries? It's very hard to believe... No balance sheet I have ever read is near that dimension.

Beside the fact of why the office anyway, because even if it's free why keeping up something useless in the modern world sound very strange to me. Why making absurdly big costs to keep up the city now that with globalisation (since '80s) and remote work the city have exhausted all it remaining reasons to exists it's really a mastery for me. The sole explanation I have is to support the large slice of population who refuse to evolve.