Anuj AhoojaJun 26, 2025
In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"
Show threadMira

@quillmatiq From my spouse: wasn’t the whole push to RTO due to dropping office real estate values, so how will they square that circle with AI?

My thought is that they’ve successfully got property values up and sold their exposure, so they don’t care if it crashes

Jun 26, 2025 at 9:23pmWeb
Show threadAnuj AhoojaJun 26, 2025
@mira Some of it was related to commercial retail, but there were other reasons: soft layoffs (RTO or quit), tax incentives, and employee control are probably mixed in there somewhere.
Show threadMiraJun 26, 2025
@quillmatiq No doubt the soft layoffs were a big reason, along with control of employees also, can’t comment on tax advantages/liabilities (no knowledge)
Show threadJayJun 26, 2025
@mira @quillmatiq That might be part of it, but I’d think a larger part is middle managers losing control of their underlings while output remains good, thereby threatening to make their positions redundant. And middle managers tend to have a lot more pull with the C-suite than the average peon does…