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49 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Dec \ parent \ on: US office construction is collapsing while data-center buildouts are exploding Construction_and_Engineering

I know what you mean, but I'm not sure "worse" is the right word.

It depends on whether remote work is welfare enhancing on net. If it is, then I think it would be more accurate to say that remote work made the economic problem with commercial real estate more apparent.

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69 sats \ 6 replies \ @kepford 5 Dec

Yeah, I don't care. I just meant it accelerated it

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69 sats \ 5 replies \ @kepford 5 Dec

For many years before I was able to work remotely I thought many people didn't need to commute to an office. It's absurd and an example of how obbssed humans are with mimicking others.

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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Dec

Which part is mimicking others?

Most of the people I collaborate with don't live in the same place as me, so commuting would basically just be teleworking from a different location.

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69 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 5 Dec

Driving to an office to sit at a screen and do work. I pushed to work remote and was ignored. This was the mid 2000s.

Now that remote work is more common companies do it. That's the mimicry

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70 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Dec

Gotcha.

The mimicry is also going the other way as firms and governments cut back on remote work, despite having basically no demonstrable reason to do so.

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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 5 Dec

Yep.. Its what weak leaders do

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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Dec

They are calling it 'Strategy Shift'. I've overheard one big CEO.

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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 5 Dec

Clearly. If anything, it clarified the mismatch between how office space was valued and how people actually want to work.

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