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San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash

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Re: San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash

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I do ask myself how long the WFH trend is going to last. My hypothesis is that at some point in the next 5 years we're going to starting seeing articles on HN promoting the productivity and well-being benefits of in-person interaction with your co-workers. From where I'm standing, productivity doesn't look so great. It's an open secret in my remote-heavy, North American west-coast social circle that everyone knocks o…

I'm pretty sure a lot of people zone out at work too. Office breaks, lunches, and general chit chat probably take a lot of time away from work too. We are after all, not machines.

Re: San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash

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Maybe SF should relax the legal requirements of residential space, then? If they choose not to build sufficient housing... they can at least choose to use what they have. A windowless room with a community bathroom doesn't sound appealing, but at a certain price point it's better than nothing.

> A windowless room with a community bathroom doesn't sound appealing, but at a certain price point it's better than nothing. Last November, HN briefly discussed [1] Munger Hall at the University of California Santa Barbara, which will be just such a building. Housing 4,500 students, only 32 of 512 single rooms on each floor will have physical windows. The remaining 95% will have virtual windows that simulate sunligh…

This building is a recipe for mental illness. It’s like someone saw Kowloon Walled City and was like, let’s do that (or Chungking Mansions).

People do live there (some pretty happily) but this does not seem like a good idea for UCSB freshmen.

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