Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week

Bay Area approve plan requiring employees to work from home 3 days a week(usatodaysun.com)

5 points by henryw 5 years ago | 7 comments

Obliterating 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+%.

digitaltrees 5 years ago | |

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.

m463 5 years ago | | |

I wonder why the common pattern in europe isn't more common in the US - businesses on first floor, apartments/residences above.

hindsightbias 5 years ago | | |

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?

m463 5 years ago |

I wonder if transportating less might lead to a budget cut for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission since they have less to preside over.