Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?

HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 274 points –

A lot of times, when people discuss the phenomenon of employers ending work-from-home and try to make their employees come back to the office, people say that the motivation is to raise real estate prices.

I don't follow the logic at all. How would doing this benefit an employer in any way?

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It's insidious.

It's not influence as in "let's have a logical and transparent discussion about wfh vs on premise".

It's rumours, back channel favours, manipulating numbers, etcetera.

Bear in mind not all companies are publicly traded. Plenty of closely held companies were started by grand dad and run on rumour and here say.

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