• anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    That’s part of it. Another part is middle management can’t function without seeing you. Finally, it’s not worth it to a company to maintain a lease on a building if nobody works there and it’s not easy getting out of those leases.

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      11 months ago

      What doesn’t make sense is why they’re not firing the useless middle managers.

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        11 months ago

        Where I work, it’s the middle managers who make a list of useless people. They obviously won’t put their own names on the list.

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        11 months ago

        Even a structure that is only a house of cards still depends on the cards of the middle tiers to hold itself up.

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      11 months ago

      The lease is already paid, or the money is planned to be paid. You can’t recover this money anyway. But you can still save on energy and cleaning.

      Getting out of the lease is as easy as not renewing it.

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        11 months ago

        Yes, it is that easy. Commercial leases are often in the 10-20 year range, however.

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      11 months ago

      I agree with most of this except the lease is a sunk cost, making people come in based on a variable that won’t change is bad decision making, the discussion should be made independently of lease. I agree some managers think this way, it’s usually the ones who could benefit from remedial business finance classes.