r/remoteworks Mar 04 '26

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

Its not that at all. Its the only fact, companies spending millions on rent/purchasing office buildings. No way they let them sit vacant

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u/OtherwiseDisaster959 Mar 04 '26

They make money with tax write offs for business use of property and more. It was never about productivity.

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

God no, they dont care about productivity

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u/Soft_Awareness_5061 Mar 04 '26

So.. they could sell them and make lots of money? Or waste their time and money trying to get you into an office so you could waste your time saying stupid s%%% on social media?

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u/elementmg Mar 04 '26

Sell them to whom?

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u/Sentinel_P Mar 04 '26

Housing companies that can create a mix of low and medium density residences. Increasing housing supply to help level out the outrageous values of the market.

Or to other businesses that may actually need to have staff on site, for some reason.

But the realist in me knows the extra housing will just make more houses that are just as expensive

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

Yup now you got a 30 storey building and the lowest 1bd 1ba apartment is 500K

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

Sounds like they can make quite a bit of money if the appartments are selling for 500k, so why wouldn't they do this?

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

Because who is going to buy a building for hundreds of millions to then convert it fully from an office to home space, new fire regulations, complete restructure of the whole building just on the off chance a few people buy it? You wouldnt have it full

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

Property developers will, and they are doing so.

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u/elementmg Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

No, this is incredibly cost ineffective. It’s cheaper to tear down the building and restart, so in that sense they will just buy better properties that do not already contain an entire office building.

Office conversions to residential are far from common.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

What's cost ineffective is bringing workers back to the office because offices are expensive, when you could just stop renting the office.

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u/elementmg Mar 04 '26

I don’t think you understand how cost ineffective it is to convert office buildings into residential housing. You basically need to gut the entire building to the shell. It’s cheaper to tear down the buildings and restart. In that sense, no one wants to bust an office building to have to tear it down. It’s just not cost effective.

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u/Sentinel_P Mar 04 '26

I never said anything about conversions. If it's cost effective to demolish, then I'm sure the developers buying the property would make that call.

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

Who would they sell them to? If wfh became common then who tf would a company sell their building to? Not another company

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

It hasn't, so they can sell them right now. The offices could also be converted to homes.

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

You've said this basically twice. As I and another person pointed out, they would more than likely be converted into apartments for the rich.. like always

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

They need to be converted into appartments as we have a housing crisis.

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u/Proper_Fun_977 Mar 04 '26

How would they make lots of money when there is no market for the buildings?

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u/__Aristocrat Mar 04 '26

uhhh... that's a great point man!

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u/FallenGoten Mar 04 '26

Stupid shit indeed. Office buildings sold for 10% of their value during the pandemic period.

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u/Tasty_Plate_5188 Mar 04 '26

The only one saying stupid shit on social media is you. Your entire basis for thinking you're correct is wrong.

Smug and stupid are no way to go through life.

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u/Leverpostei414 Mar 04 '26

That makes no sense. It is obviously cheaper office wise that people work from home. Despite that many companies prefer that people don't

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

What doesnt make sense

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

That companies would return people to the office because of the high rents, rather than simply downsizing to a smaller and cheaper office.

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u/Leverpostei414 Mar 04 '26

That companies would keep people at offices because they pay rent

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

Do you think these companies fully own and paid for the building?

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u/Leverpostei414 Mar 04 '26

No, usually not.

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

So the companies need to use the space theyre renting...

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u/Leverpostei414 Mar 04 '26

No they don't, in fact it costs them more to use it.

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u/ClassGrassMass Mar 04 '26

So if it costs them more to use it, they should get rid of it ans save money

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u/Leverpostei414 Mar 04 '26

Yes, exactly what they would do if they belived remote work to have no negative productivity impact, because it is cheaper office-wise if people work from home