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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 130 points 2 months ago (53 children)

Why the fuck would any office worker whose job is 100% on a computer need to be in an office? I don't understand why companies want to pay for all of that electricity and real estate just to make people sit in cubicles.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 88 points 2 months ago (27 children)

To prevent a crash in the commercial office real estate market.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Why should they care though? It's not like commercial real estate sells more computers. Staff still needs desktops, infrastructure still needs datacenters.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Cloud infrastructure is great for this. You don't need your own data center when you can just rent space on a farm. As a bonus, it's less work for the IT team who no longer have to deal with server hardware upkeep.

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