Why Hasn’t The “Companies Save Money On Real Estate” Argument Scaled WFH?

It’s complicated and it involves a lot of moving parts.

We’ve been in a nearly three-year loop/arc about the various merits and hand-wringing of different models of working:

• Work-from-home
• Work-in-office, or “RTO”
• Hybrid work
• Working on a random Japanese sub-island and telling your boss you’re at home
• Etc, etc.

These arguments are never-ending and every few weeks, someone new weighs in via The Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal or some Twitter thread or LinkedIn and they offer a new “take” on what work-from-home would mean for:

• Women
• Pets
• Children
• Productivity
• Downtown cores
• Dog walkers
• Sex robots
• Etc, etc.

The takes are endless.