Office Space
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Morris avoids office real estate, citing 83% delinquency on matured loans
“83% of office loans that matured are showing delinquencies, and I'm not touching office space for that reason.”
Morris: Remote work is permanent and office occupancy will not recover
“The remote work shift is permanent. The occupancy story doesn't recover.”
Kushner: Older office buildings are trading below land value
“I think the office space right now is in for a massive change in the industry. I think you're going to see a lot of the older buildings get get transitioned. A lot of them are trading now for below land price, which is pretty remarkable.”
Mark Read: Midweek-Only Office Attendance Creates Massive Real Estate Inefficiency
“If you staff your offices to be busy three days a week, and it seems everyone wants to come in Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, actually is massively inefficient. You know, we have these buildings empty four days a week”
Hosting annual company and departmental retreats costs less than office space
“I would do one major company retreat, and then I would do one departmental retreat per year. It's going to not necessarily cost you that much. It's definitely going to cost you less than an office.”
Jason Calacanis: San Francisco has 16M sq ft of vacant office space
“It's sixteen million of square feet of vacant office space now spread across San Francisco.”
Evans: Hybrid office footprint only shrinks if attendance is evenly spread
“You need less office space if that's evenly spread across the week. But if you're a whole, if everybody is home at Thursday and Friday, then you need exactly as much office space as you had in If everybody's got to be in the office on Mondays, then, like, you'…”