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Could also be a real estate thing. Investors of companies have huge amounts of money in real estate as well. This can be companies trying to please investors by helping increase their real estate values.

This is one of those paranoid, wrong, but suggestive and agreeable theories that make people take idealogical sides before seeing the data.

I mean, I started by saying it’s a hot take on the situation. That’s a warning label that it will make people take sides.

Not really sure what data there is available to prove or disprove this point though.

On the prove side, there are examples that companies don’t like unions, and are spending $ to fight unionizations.

Now where exactly WFH and unions fit is not clear.

This is exactly what this is about, as are many of the layoffs we're seeing. Labor got too much negotiating power during the pandemic, this is the capitalist class reasserting control.