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I don't think it's this "all rich jerks own commercial real estate" thing that everyone going on about. I get the feeling it's more about the managerial/director types. The ones who are maybe well off but maybe not quite rich. My director owns a 150,000 tesla, but I don't think he's near well off enough to own an office building.
Anyway, at a certain level and upwards, all you do is meet and talk to people all day. They value face to face communication because that's a more effective meeting, and builds more rapport with the members.
They value face to face communication because that's a more effective meeting, and builds more rapport with the members.
More effective... At what? Are you the one who schedules meetings that could have been avoided with a 3 sentence email?
No actually, I hate meetings as they prevent me from getting my actual work done. I do think some vast conspiracy where all the execs own office space and cabaled together keep office real estate high is a bit silly though, so it's good to think for a moment and ask what real value there is to be in the classic work environment, because there is some tradeoff, and think who mostly benefits that and why.
Some people seem to have reactionary responses to not going with the narrative of the problem weaved by this thread though. Internet is going to internet I guess
That's okay with me, but is there at least one meeting that requires me? Only having managers in the office could allow one to have an office ten times smaller, and no other people are needed there anyway (or live in a thousand miles radius from the office, since all the managers live in the costly city in the costly state, and the most of others are not even in the States)
I think it's more about manager capability. A person who manages IT, for example, but has little idea what that entails will want people in the office. They have no idea if a given ticket should take 3 hours or 3 days to resolve, so it's easier to just have their people in the office where they can look at them and verify that they are, in fact, sitting at a computer.
The ideal work environment for me, and I think most people, is one where you're judged based on what you do and how well you do it, while details like when you do it and where you are when you do it get left to your discretion. Managing someone like that requires skill and knowledge in what they're doing though.