While major companies like Meta, Amazon, and Google continue to assess remote-work policies and office costs, one CEO isn’t sugar-coating the way employees feel.
“There’s this assumption that people like commuting into a central business district,” Mark Dixon, CEO of flexible office company IWG, told CNBC. “They don’t. It’s a complete waste of time and money and they don’t want to do it.”
As companies that went fully remote during the pandemic have begun to request workers return to the office, there’s been conflict over in-person mandates.
Dixon, who founded his flexible office company in 1989, told CNBC that he believes this resistance to return-to-office policies will create a “shock” for the commercial real estate industry – especially as major tech companies evaluate the costs of their office spaces