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Marketwatch is a subsidiary of Dow Jones which is a subsidiary of News Corp, which also owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and Investor's Business Daily, among others.

to simplify this, they’re all owned by the Murdochs

If we go down this rabbit hole everything is owned by 7 companies.

I wonder. It seems as though historically commercial real estate is a gigantic industry with strong relationships to other industries. Anecdotally it seems as though companies that lease their real estate have been much more inclined towards wfh.

Nobody is sponsoring those articles, they are simply writing what their readers want to hear, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Much like when the papers write so much nationalistic tripe that the people reading them actually start both believing it, and expecting it.

> writing what their readers want to hear

No, they're writing what gets clicks or shifts papers. Saying WFH is bad pleases a (large) subset of managers and enrages a lot of the rank and file, but they all click. So that's what they write.

Not only pleasing managers. I feel as well a certain envy from people who can’t work remotely, that find pleasure in seeing such articles.

And I say that as someone working in tech missing the office.