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If your business is so successful that building or renting a nice office is a rounding error then that's fantastic. I just know that, like a real time strategy game, if you spend some resources on something, you aren't spending it on something else. It's called opportunity cost and it's the first thing you learn in intro microecon, which, despite being a developer, I have taken. Spending X dollars on an office is a decision to not spend that somewhere else in the business. That might be the right decision, I don't know, I'm just a developer. But yeah, I guess it's more complex than that, as I suppose one wouldn't want to slip into a scarcity mindset, either.


Making a better work environment for your employees is good for the bottom line and the employees. It is not that complicated.


> a better work environment for your employees

By whose definition? Home can be a great work environment with a modest investment.


Exactly , all the money put into the office could go towards ensuring that workers have the best WFH setup.


I agree. That's why we made a choice and want to work from home (or wherever we chose from, not you).




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