Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week
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Re: Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week
#2Obliterating commercial real estate and surrounding industries will have huge impacts. No business is going to maintain an office presence to keep the lights on 2 days a week. Service industries will disappear.
It would allow plenty of space for expanding the Tenderloin management model. Very dystopian.
Just mandate a 4 day work week and tell businesses what day they get. Then add a 1-day work from home. That should reduce daily traffic by 25+%.
Re: Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week
#3I wonder if transportating less might lead to a budget cut for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission since they have less to preside over.
Re: Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week
#4Obliterating commercial real estate and surrounding industries will have huge impacts. No business is going to maintain an office presence to keep the lights on 2 days a week. Service industries will disappear. It would allow plenty of space for expanding the Tenderloin management model. Very dystopian. Just mandate a 4 day work week and tell businesses what day they get. Then add a 1-day work from home. That should…
Or convert offices to housing. That would actually increase local service businesses. Companies could then have a smaller office for meetings and their team could be closer to the office. Give current office owners an incentive to do it in a staggered set of waves, let them retain some units as rentals but incentivize them to flood the market to bring prices down and watch the city benefit.
Re: Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week
#5Obliterating commercial real estate and surrounding industries will have huge impacts. No business is going to maintain an office presence to keep the lights on 2 days a week. Service industries will disappear. It would allow plenty of space for expanding the Tenderloin management model. Very dystopian. Just mandate a 4 day work week and tell businesses what day they get. Then add a 1-day work from home. That should…
Or convert offices to housing. That would actually increase local service businesses. Companies could then have a smaller office for meetings and their team could be closer to the office. Give current office owners an incentive to do it in a staggered set of waves, let them retain some units as rentals but incentivize them to flood the market to bring prices down and watch the city benefit.
I wonder why the common pattern in europe isn't more common in the US - businesses on first floor, apartments/residences above.
Re: Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or convert offices to housing. That would actually increase local service businesses. Companies could then have a smaller office for meetings and their team could be closer to the office. Give current office owners an incentive to do it in a staggered set of waves, let them retain some units as rentals but incentivize them to flood the market to bring prices down and watch the city benefit.
I wonder why the common pattern in europe isn't more common in the US - businesses on first floor, apartments/residences above.
Zoning. And people complaining about smells and sounds.
Re: Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week
#7Obliterating commercial real estate and surrounding industries will have huge impacts. No business is going to maintain an office presence to keep the lights on 2 days a week. Service industries will disappear. It would allow plenty of space for expanding the Tenderloin management model. Very dystopian. Just mandate a 4 day work week and tell businesses what day they get. Then add a 1-day work from home. That should…
Or convert offices to housing. That would actually increase local service businesses. Companies could then have a smaller office for meetings and their team could be closer to the office. Give current office owners an incentive to do it in a staggered set of waves, let them retain some units as rentals but incentivize them to flood the market to bring prices down and watch the city benefit.
As long as you want to live in an open office plan and share bathrooms. Modern buildings are optimized one way, redoing plumbing and all is possible but will be very expensive and still result in a $1000 sqft.
Why even bother if everyone wants to move away?
Re: Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or convert offices to housing. That would actually increase local service businesses. Companies could then have a smaller office for meetings and their team could be closer to the office. Give current office owners an incentive to do it in a staggered set of waves, let them retain some units as rentals but incentivize them to flood the market to bring prices down and watch the city benefit.
As long as you want to live in an open office plan and share bathrooms. Modern buildings are optimized one way, redoing plumbing and all is possible but will be very expensive and still result in a $1000 sqft. Why even bother if everyone wants to move away?
People repurposed New York factories and lofts in earlier eras to some of the coolest living spaces we have. Don’t under estimate creative people’s adaptation of infrastructure.