Because loads of commercial real estate is empty that is all financed by mortgages which won't pay by themselves.
If a mission critical kernel can be developed remotely with people from basement of the world Australia to Seattle then these shopping carts, comparison websites, classified portals, review aggregators etc etc. should perfectly be possible remotely and if not, that's totally on your incompetence to communicate and organise things properly.
Corporate managers outing themselves as less competent at organizing work than a bunch of smelly[1] computer nerds and 16 year old MMO players in their parents’ basement. It’s pretty funny that they haven’t realized they’re dissing themselves hard.
Meanwhile, C-suite still managing from airports and golf courses and their vacation home. One wonders if it’s got more to do with class than effectiveness.
One empty C-suite office wastes less square feet of commercial real estate than an empty cubicle farm (unless the organisation is even more broken). Plus the C-suite isn't just stealing time (back) from the company to care for a sick kid. Oh noooo! They're doing the important the things they're entitled to like golf, tennis, and hookers.
The idea that RTO is being driven by the desire to prop up commercial real estate makes zero sense and needs to die. The vast majority of companies are renting their office space, and have no interest at all in the mortgage price of the building.
There may even be a counter incentive, where if the real estate values go down, so does the rental rate which would save the company money.
If a mission critical kernel can be developed remotely with people from basement of the world Australia to Seattle then these shopping carts, comparison websites, classified portals, review aggregators etc etc. should perfectly be possible remotely and if not, that's totally on your incompetence to communicate and organise things properly.