"Customers don’t care what the companies buildings are like." They never could, yet their experience is shaped by the buildings employees use. Having been moved to a hybrid office and lost my private office -- my work suffered and so did the work of my colleagues. By not taking real estate seriously, my company is pushing me to look for work elsewhere. I don't want to waste my thirties doing crappy work because I don…
I personally find this statement presumptuous.
Most of us are doing mundane work on boring/useless products and that’s what puts food on the table.
People who do meaningful work in their thirties and have a private office are very rare. I think trying to measure your outcomes to this metric is a recipe for feeling like a failure because it’s unachievable for the vast vast majority.