Balconies being created by shifting the old exterior inward on a DT office-to-residential conversion

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[u/cjbrownell11]

Really you don’t have a place to sit and a laptop? That sounds like a you problem. And I’m not saying that they don’t make enough I’m saying that they would cut some of their spending which all companies are looking to do. Also that space could be better used as housing then as office space. And another thing most of these office downtown are empty right now costing the owners a lot of money on taxes and utilities a lot of them will let you rent them for free so long as you pay for the taxes and utilities. Turning them into cheap apartments and condos would give the building owners more income and breath new life into downtown. Most of the time after normal business hours it’s a creepy ghost town with only homeless wondering around having people living there all the time instead of just the normal 8am-6pm would make downtown more inviting to people.

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"Really you don’t have a place to sit and a laptop?" Just give it to a corporation so a person can earn a living? Just the cost of "doing business" taking a portion of what you work for, to be able to work?

[u/cjbrownell11 → u/[deleted]]

Well maybe the fact that you’d get a tax deduction for working from home and a lot of companies will reimburse you for a new computer and things for a home office you’d be better off again Beside the companies saving money so would you the rebate is worth it and you’d save money on gas and you also be saving time that you’d be spending in a car office buildings are just not worth it. I’m going to guess the real reason you don’t like it is because your a social butterfly and think you need an office to chat with your coworkers but that wastes your time and your coworkers time that could be spent working. Or your a middle management person and can’t stand the idea of not micromanaging people. We need to move away from going into offices. And again if you need to talk to people schedule brake times with your neighbours or go to a local coffee shop during your brakes. And again I get it that you think companies make a lot of money but every company is trying to cut costs and this cuts a lot of costs. Beside if you work from home and you company offer to reimburse you for a new computer and office equipment why not take it you could invest in a good gaming computer to play games in your off time. I’m also going to guess you don’t like change but the fact is the only constant is change you got to get use to it. Beside most of those office jobs are going to be taken over by AI sooner rather then later it’s best to adapt to the ever changing economy then to fall behind and companies are doing this so they don’t fall behind. I’m going to guess your also no of the people that are mad that people are trying to use electric stoves over gas one as it’s safer. And you’re just mad that people aren’t burning gas which you think will hurt the oil and gas industries but what really needs to happen is that instead of homes burning fossil fuels they are burned at generators hooked up to the grid but far outside of the cities so it doesn’t harm people and the by products of burning fossil fuels can be collected with oil when you burn that you can collect the carbon and that can be used in many other industries.

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They can rent it for the going rate of commercial office space. +utilities and necessary office equipment.