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by ceejayoz 597 days ago
> Stories like this are also why there has been a major push for RTO.

Citation needed. I find this very unlikely as the root cause.

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It's about investment funds and shareholders owning commercial property who push for RTO out of fear of their portfolio going down in value if people are not using the offices.
> investment funds and shareholders owning commercial property

Are you in San Francisco? This is a conspiracy theory I hear a lot in San Francisco.

It's a dumb conspiracy theory at the macro-scale, and the overlap between CBRE or JLL and a company's board is minimal
None of these articles prove your argument.
Did you read them?
It is, but I’m curious about why it’s so popular. Is it a Musk thing?
It's an HN+Reddit thing.

The userbases overlap significantly now.

To be fair I think the only reason the conspiracy even exists is because, apparently, nobody knows what RTO is really about. IMO it's mostly just a power play and insecure executives, but they won't come out and say that of course. We're left to speculate, and naturally conspiracies thrive.