The Birth and Death of the Office
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The Birth and Death of the Office
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#2I miss the office.
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#3It is less the death of the office and more the death of work. We just haven’t come to admit that. Death of work and “cold” relationships and the retreat to home, emotional connection, nurturing, caring. Once employers know it’s more about that and less about work then we will see things turn around.
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#4I miss the office.
same
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#5I miss the office.
I miss offices in reasonable locations. Instead they're all in the same 6-8 cities that all have increasingly bad homeless populations.
No, I don't want to live in the Bay, New York City, Boston, Austin, or Denver. Please create small satellite offices in reasonable cities instead of mega campuses in towns that all seem to have public libraries that are now defacto homeless shelters.
Tech imports most of the talent these days anyway, so I don't buy the "talent only wants to move to the Bay!" argument.
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#6I miss the office.
I miss offices in reasonable locations. Instead they're all in the same 6-8 cities that all have increasingly bad homeless populations. No, I don't want to live in the Bay, New York City, Boston, Austin, or Denver. Please create small satellite offices in reasonable cities instead of mega campuses in towns that all seem to have public libraries that are now defacto homeless shelters. Tech imports most of the talent t…
The US tried the suburban office park model. It's horrible.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I miss offices in reasonable locations. Instead they're all in the same 6-8 cities that all have increasingly bad homeless populations. No, I don't want to live in the Bay, New York City, Boston, Austin, or Denver. Please create small satellite offices in reasonable cities instead of mega campuses in towns that all seem to have public libraries that are now defacto homeless shelters. Tech imports most of the talent t…
The US tried the suburban office park model. It's horrible.
Do I have to walk over feces and needles to get to work at a suburban office park model? Can I afford housing?
Sure, sounds lame if I'm 23. What if -- crazy idea -- we have a variety of both options?
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#8I miss the office.
Once remote working has been around long enough we'll probably see the rise of new social constructs that fill the void the office as the "second place" is leaving behind.
The office was a crappy "second place" anyways.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US tried the suburban office park model. It's horrible.
Do I have to walk over feces and needles to get to work at a suburban office park model? Can I afford housing? Sure, sounds lame if I'm 23. What if -- crazy idea -- we have a variety of both options?
Urban areas don't have to have lots of petty crime and homelessness. Let's not assume they come as a package.
Certain sectors clustering together in a geographic region has nice advantages even for non-23yo non-single folk. One can hop jobs without uprooting the rest of the family.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I miss offices in reasonable locations. Instead they're all in the same 6-8 cities that all have increasingly bad homeless populations. No, I don't want to live in the Bay, New York City, Boston, Austin, or Denver. Please create small satellite offices in reasonable cities instead of mega campuses in towns that all seem to have public libraries that are now defacto homeless shelters. Tech imports most of the talent t…
The US tried the suburban office park model. It's horrible.
Horrible ? It works extremely well. It's one of the reasons America is so rich.
It's 'horrible' from the '3rd space' perspective, in that it doesn't make for quaint high street shopping ... but it works really well for teams that want to get together every day and do stuff without the fuss of complicated little villages and twisty roads, no space for parking.
Kind of like major highways, they're good at what they were designed to do. They just have externalizations. Bad one's depending on how you measure.