Another element of this is that businesses have less leverage in negotiations with local government to carve out tax breaks and other incentives if their employees don’t go to the office.
The argument for a long time was that they were bringing a ton of business to the area (employees going out to eat and patroning other businesses) so you should send some kickbacks our way.
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