Rush predicted this. People would discover no need to live or work in NYC and deal with crime and high rents, etc.
How will they blame Trump for this?
Get rid of cubicles and go with an open office plan.
Three weeks ago after 2 years away I returned to the office one day a week.
One day a week in the office—see a few people in person for one-on-one meetings, get my favorite burrito I missed—together with 4 days at home is a perfect balance. One day a week in the office breaks up the monotony of 5 days of working from home.
It wouldn’t bother me if NYC collapsed inward on itself and disappeared from the face of the earth. What a blight.
Like it or not working from home is going to increasingly be the norm from now on. There are a lot of good aspects of this. It eases congestion, saves time, saves fuel and makes workers less subject to office politics. It will be great for smaller cities and small towns.
For the restaurants and other businesses that depend on office commuters its a disaster. For commercial real estate it will be a disaster and for expensive big cities like New York and San Francisco it will be a death knell.
If you can live in the exurbs or a small town, still get the same salary (which will go farther), and have to put up with less traffic, less noise, less pollution and less crime...why the hell wouldn’t you? Do you really want to live in a little concrete box in the sky when you could have a nice ranch house on a half acre lot with plenty of room to garden or for your dogs and/or have a deck to relax on and do some grilling?
psssst, Democrats are utterly dependent on big cities. As this bites into them and strengthens small towns and the countryside........
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Office buildings are obsolete. The were designed to accommodate the processing of information on paper. Reference information was stored in books, binders and file cabinets. Orders, invoices, project documents, requisitions, memos, etc. would flow from desk to desk as they were received, processed, recorded, and dispatched.
Over the years this was converted to partially digital work flows, with a mix of paper and electronic documents on workstations. This led to the cubicle farm office environment.
Covid and working from home drove the final steps to all digital work flows.
The next step is to replace what people are doing at home with AI in server farms for completely automated work flows.
If it weren't for the COVID cashouts to Dem cities, they'd already be hitting the limit on how much more free stuff for minorities they could deliver.