Post #3107468
2025-06-26 21:23 UTC
@quillmatiq@mastodon.social 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
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@quillmatiq@mastodon.social 2025-06-26 21:28
@mira@shark.community 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.
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@WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online 2025-06-26 22:07
@mira@shark.community @quillmatiq@mastodon.social 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…