The real problem with commercial real estate is people not coming to work, says Bruce Ratner

[@RonaldMcDonald-o5z]

When there is no good reason to drive to an office, or as you say "go into work" why should anyone? To float the values of your failing real estate investments? So businesses can pay your extortion high rent to building owners? I'll pass.

[@reedriter2]

There is still a good reason to go in the office. I learn so much from being in the office that one can't learn by sitting home alone isolate. I hear stuff, for example, that other business units are doing that our team can intersect with. I also build a stronger working relationship with the executive team.

[@RonaldMcDonald-o5z]

@reedriter2 have you tried just asking around, browsing documentation, roadmaps on jira or confluence or github? google docs? reading other channels in slack or teams? you know: where all of this information is laid out better and available for everyone to see whenever and more searchable and easy to reference details from later?

[@KK-pm7ud]

The reason to go in is that you get paid. Shut up.

[@RonaldMcDonald-o5z]

@@KK-pm7ud not if I quit for another remote job you jamoke.

[@jonathanhart8046]

What a terrific guest. No BS . Very refreshing.

[@amatuer2]

Since Covid, the company i work for allows me to work anywhere I want. As long as my assignements are complete its all good.

[@nutsbutdum]

"Guys, remember how you worked from home for two years straight without major problems!? Yeah, we need you to forget all that and come back to rent our overpriced buildings. I got a mortgage on my third mansion in the Hamptons, it's not fair!"😂😂😂

[@stevechance150]

And then when you come back to the office, we're going to do our best to replace you with AI, so we can pay our CEO even more money.

[@reedriter2]

Except what's happening at certain companies is that once they figure out they can't get their local workers back in the office, outsourcing to India suddenly becomes more attractive again.

[@wnose]

1 hour driving to work, then another hour driving back. 2 hours a day.... 10 hours a week.... 500 hours a year. What could you do with 500 extra hours a year????

[@jemje2007]

I used to do it for 8 years. It was exhausting. Now I only drive 15 minutes a day.

[@reedriter2]

The downside is that you are more likely to be laid off as a remote worker.

[@shangpush]

Exactly! Every metropolitan area across the United States experiences bumper to bumper traffic jams of commuters twice daily. One person per car emitting greenhouse gases and heating the planet further. Decade after decade, same old same old. Utter insanity. Work from home is a major step in the right direction. Why not high-speed rail?

[@jarrodmagnusson4101]

@@shangpush How can oil which is supposedly from dinosaurs cause damage to the environment? Everything thing we are using is from the earth.

[@HelloWorld-hb7yt]

at least he is honest.

[@geraldbrowne]

Love this guy

[@CSARVA]

his brother had metastatic cancer but don't know what kind and he wrote a book about it? I have many questions about your lover!

[@XxXenosxX]

No need to go back to office when the same thing is accomplished without huge real estate expenses

[@Andrew-3445]

He wants us to go back in so the Scrooge McDucks don't have to sell their 10th vacation home and yacht. It's so costly for us peasants to go into the office though, both in time and money.

[@ravikurup8350]

Petrol prices are at an all time high and employers are not offering any compensation. Prices of food is also skyrocketing. Better to stay home, save money, and less carbon pollution is good for everyone

[@Rob_G716]

No one is working in commercial offices anymore. It’s over!

[@ericp4573]

People are willing to work for less money from home, and do more work. On top of that these big companies are saving tens of millions of dollars a year not having to pay these leases

[@stache1954]

It's a societal shift.

[@braven07]

Agree. Work from home isn’t going away

[@DeltaBravo-777]

Or a wealth transfer

[@damham5689]

Long before the pandemic we were all being told that corporations wanted to move to work from home to save money on office space. Then it happened and they said "hold the phone ! We own the building other corporations are sending employees home from to reduce their cost " Corporate rake stepping.

[@jonathantaylor6926]

Most of these office buildings are in the downtown of rotting cities. People might not admit it but they don't want to walk past homeless people, drug addicts, and "migrants".

[@samuelmbowa6755]

Yet he also said the same cities have a housing shortage

[@drakeblessum3466]

Let me help you with headline: Real Estate investors bet billions of dollars in debt that workers would ALWAYS go into work… they bet wrong!!!

[@mulemule]

*"The real problem with commercial real estate is **_real estate developers ignoring the cultural shift of_** people not coming IN to work." (ftfy)*

[@Seanpfree]

This is THE END of first time home ownership and the slow death of the middle class in a generation.

[@michaels7258]

People are never going back. It’s more productive to telework.

[@CarlSnellSellingTheCity]

You can tell he really is passionate about early cancer detection!

[@reedriter2]

unfortunately, he doesn't have the data on his side. There is no such thing as early detection. By the time these screening tests catch cancer, it's already too late, if it's usually too late. A lot of the 'cancer' that is caught early is very slow growing cancers that would never have caused any issue. Also, if ou die 7 years after your cancer was caught early, as occurred with my mother, you are considered to have 'survived' cancer, as survival rate is measured in 5 years. All that changed with early detection is that you lived with anxiety a couple of more years, but your date of death did not necessarily change.

[@carlyellison8498]

​@@reedriter2- interesting perspective, thank you!

[@Tesfas]

what about reducing the cost of these test and making them more accessible?

[@gerardsison7610]

But people are coming to work, they’re working in their home office.

[@Donkor640]

I Love the way he redirects the False-Positive narrative at the end. False-Negative is a much bigger problem.

[@shangpush]

The two companies mentioned here are offering revolutionary products that should vastly improve health care outcomes and dramatically reduce health care and health insurance costs. Mr. Ratner's book about early cancer screening will get the word out to the publlic about the importance and ease of change coming our way. Many thanks for his heroic crusade and sharing the very good news about cancer screening blood tests.

[@User-pu3lc]

Businesses have more than enough data showing they get more productivity out of people working from home where it makes sense. The corporate real estate owners will keep crying but businesses aren’t listening. My company is counting down the days to drop our lease. Massively under utilized space. The tragedy in all this is investors are shifting from corporate to residential real estate and gaslighting people with “there’s not enough housing” across media channels. They are cornering desirable housing markets and manipulating prices of assets and rents to cover their corporate real estate loses.

[@judewarner1536]

The real problem is that the people who run everything have an 18-month, profit-driven future perspective. They are never ready for change and just want things to carry on the way they always have. Their second preference, after things have changed, is to return things to the way they were before. There is a HUGE potential market for converting entire dead office buildings into accommodation, which is in short supply everywhere. This is beginning to happen apace in Central London, England with apartments going on the market at £2 million (do your own currency conversion).

[@ronie6773]

Great content! ❤

[@thomascuvillier7250]

Companies that require return to office have been loosing top talent way more quickly than others who have seen employee turnover reduced. It is over, give up. Companies requiring you to be in office 5 days a week will become less & less competitive over time when compared to others. A lot of companies also really don't seem to understand that focus is key to productivity in the service industry, cramming workers on one big desk is stupid beyond beleif, especially for roles like devs: you were shooting yourselves in the foot with that one.

[@joshm960]

Is the plantation empty?😂😂😂😂i mean offices

[@humanbeing5300]

Well you got rid of cubicles and expect people to sit at an open table and make it impossible to work. The office is the least productive environment for most tech workers.

[@paulsaragosa371]

Very horrific results in the frightening mode s

[@mschief-central4940]

The problem with not coming back to the office don’t need to come to the office. Work from home was proven to be productive, saves on gas, car wear and tear, contributes to worker morale and work/life balance. It’s real estate and middle management that has to try to justify their position that were yelling for return to office. We’re short on housing in every income level from fixed income disabled, seniors, vets through to higher income earners. No need for all this high end luxury only, we need all income straight 30% of net income housing. Not HUD, not housing authorities.

[@jalopy2472]

If the companies paid me more to live in the center of the city, then yes I’ll go into the office. Pay me more, or setup desirable company housing, with more than 1 bedroom in a nice part of the city. Then I’ll gladly come in.

[@od2437]

4:37 someone farted? 😂

[@seejendo3290]

When people report on new home pricing and numbers - are they generally inclusive of rent to build? And what does this mean in the context of new home inventory numbers we’ve seen?

[@Somellier6969]

Captain Freakin OBVIOUS

[@MrSuperbluesky]

Becky still Furious cos she has to pay more to park

[@TheWizard856]

Let people WFH and convert these offices into housing. Why do they resist dropping rents and peoples happiness? It seems sick to me.

[@w00deey12]

The guest didn’t let them muddy the water with macro rhetoric. Great job focusing on the micro factors!!!

[@solidorsharp3091]

Let the wreaking ball fly stop undermining demolition efforts. Banks are also the problem. Construction industry as a whole needs modernization and reforms. Same for city planning and zoning laws and permits. Lots of entrenched interests. NIMBY also a problem hurting their own home prices $ by not supporting green infrastructure and green development.

[@davidwilliams4498]

Its very simple an knew it would happen when people shop an buy online brick an mortar stores lose when so many jobs are just computor BS jobs many work at home. This will surely affect all real estate in time. People want this easy great technology though its a jobs an commercial real estate killer indeed...be interesting to see in another 10 yrs how this all turns out.

[@paulsaragosa371]

Thy Chessmaster said thy ignorance of the global economic crisis world is the horrible 99percent of the entire world

[@Bjamin9891]

Make cities safe, fun and livable until then who wants to go back into the office

[@SJ-lt6yf]

Great man

[@uditkumar3255]

Cities are dabbling with congestion surcharges/Toll and on the other hand complaining about empty offices. Both can’t go hand in hand. If you want de congested cities (main area) let the employment not concentrated at one place and work from home is spreading employment opportunities. Accept it, embrace it, then there is no need for congestion Toll

[@peterbedford2610]

Reduces value of commercial office space , while increasing the value of home office space. Less commuting = lower oil consumption, traffic and pollution ....many costs. But, tax revenues decline and local businesses decline. The US has a very large economy built around people going to an office. This will have impacts all over the place!!.

[@DakotaFord592]

Make all of the empty skyscrapers available for free. So people can live in them. There you go, problem solved!!

[@eliza5960]

People are going to work, they are just not chained to a desk

[@lushlife6864]

Can't we print some money for these victim landlords?

[@stevechance150]

You literally made me laugh out loud. My question for the fat cat landlords is this, "What are you going to do when AI makes it easy for companies to layoff 90% of their workers"?

[@thehonesttruth8808]

People gotta live somewhere

[@paulsaragosa371]

Thy escape from new York city thy magnificent movies 🎬 movies 🎥 kurt Russell

[@VegasVaron]

Real estate, especially REITS are in for a big surprise when interest rates come up readjustment.

[@herrwahnsinn4229]

Interesting title. Detoxing must be active every day

[@attinsona]

LOL the congestion pricing question and he shut it down.

[@mikehundt4263]

Better to prevent it altogether

[@user-fb6hy2eh5y]

The environmental impact of driving in to work is why we didn't see smog during the pandemic. Sock on that.

[@ravikurup8350]

I don't want to be micromanaged anymore. If my boss changes the wfh policy to onsite then I'm leaving

[@MB4.23]

Worst show on CNBC. Unwatchable

[@damham5689]

Squawk Box is a show only Ayn Rand would like. 😂

[@KK-pm7ud]

The real problem with America is that we've allowed people to become lazy and this next generation is a disaster.

[@dakadoodle]

Or could be that its become obsolete? Crazy idea

[@dalepellerin]

And we never will!

[@tioopuh]

Why wasn't the last part it's own section, it was more important than all of that jabber about housing

[@lifevest1]

I’ve seen how executives work. They spend half their day talking/cracking jokes. Their type of work =/= the work of low level workers who are glued to their screens all day. This guy is full of if when he says “not coming to work.”

[@solidorsharp3091]

Let the wreaking ball fly, stop undermining demolition efforts. Banks are also the problem. Construction industry as a whole needs modernization and reforms. Same for city planning and zoning laws and permits. Lots of entrenched interests. NIMBY also a problem hurting their own home prices $ by not supporting green infrastructure and green development.

[@diamondbolton2944]

With the speculative 4-day work week, additionally people will need somewhere to go leisurely/entertainment.

[@cashcow4383]

What will turn into a nighmare is the vast amount of strip malls that have nothing but fast food, subs, tacos, burgers all these strip malls are nice i cant see them enough money when the economy slows down. Not everyone is gonna buy a a $12 sub or 14 dollar borrito bowl.

[@paulsaragosa371]

I'm not a very smart tiny little brain storming of thy own one brain s

[@bluestarcesium]

The Federal government has to refinance twelve trillion dollars of debt in 2025, and twelve trillion in 2026. The Fed will erred on keeping interest rates high enough to slow the economy to where three percent Treasury bonds look good. The Fed’s main concern is moving all the short term Federal Debt to longer duration. A recession would reduce inflation to some degree, and many people would move into Treasury securities especially if the ten year is at three percent and the two year was negative.

[@kirkwoodbharris5110]

You can fall through the floor

[@Dusty-Zafu]

What test are they talking about? Re: lung cancer?

[@RootBeerGMT]

We are absolutely in for an extended recession

[@All_Walks_]

I'm short vornado lol

[@stevechance150]

Why go back to the office when they're going to replace us all with AI as quickly as they can? Call center workers should be running for the door. I wouldn't even know what to tell these people to get training for, maybe LPNs or RNs. Boomers aren't going to want a robot caring for them.

[@metacube9913]

lmao

[@chadvaughan-ry8yp]

Don't forget the largest experiment in human population 3 years ago....

[@nickseccombe1357]

PREVENTION is the key...lifestyle

[@Sujaljaina]

this guy looks a lot like chuck schumer

[@KoQuesada]

LOL

[@IN-hw8it6]

It's a temporary disruption! 🌻

[@angelachanellehuang5663]

Real estate is a joke

[@brycesattler2301]

*Modular Subsided Rent Controlled Properties!*

[@elpepelucho]

this guy is totally wrong about interest rates, it's the exact opposite actually. They go up slowly and come down fast. Just pull up a chart of historic interest rates before you open your dumb mouf.

[@Andrew-3445]

Right, when the crash comes they don't lower them 0.25% at a time. They drop them to zero.

[@ianpatrick23]

Oof

[@thetradersam6157]

IBRX

[@MichaelLewis-mg4go]

Looks like he hasn't slept in years or he's been crying what's going on

[@jf9670]

Rent is also a great write-off for businesses. You can only deduct so much from home. Large corporations want to take advantage of this. More tax incentives will come to bring back office. It's down but not dead. Work from home does not work

[@305_CARDO]

This is where the wave of layoffs will come from . High office leases with less workers in the office coupled with a lack of productivity by work from home employees. Come back to the office to work or get laid off unless companies decide to transition into work from home only model

[@dr_flunks]

i retired early due to back to office. i'm never going back to office.

[@carefulconsumer8682]

Who wants to go to work when they can play around at home in their PJs, watch TV, and still get paid?