Use the stairs, work from home: Asia is already making big changes as oil prices spike

And with that much capital down, they really want to be sure people are *using* that investment, stupid or not. Especially if they, as part of a diverse portfolio, part or entirely own a company whose raison d'être is leasing office space. Perverse incentives are a hell of a thing

Yeah but one of big office valuations is the occupancy rate. If there’s a low occupancy rate, then the building isn’t as valuable. That’s why they had to send us back to the office because making money office real estate was basically guaranteed as it gets before COVID, and occupancy rates plummeting set the owners of the real estate up for catastrophic loss in a previously low risk investment. Call up your boys at McKinsey and they offer a brilliant solution, return all workers to the office so the real estate doesn’t collapse, and you can fire everyone that doesn’t comply without paying them severance. It’s a win /win for all the suits, not so much for the common plebe that has to drive an hour each way and pay (now) war induced gas hikes.

Yes, the economy is sustained by getting the plebes out and about to consume.

Well a state government in Australia clearly wasn't scared enough to do it. And if I were the federal government, I'd let the states take the lead and see the effects on businesses (both F&B and businesses with a predominantly in-office workforce). Victoria is probably the best test bed for this with a dominant CBD that relies on office workers, lots of white-collar businesses and a big enough population (7mil) where you'd actually see a measurable impact.

Nothing it has to do with dead downtowns and urban areas with decreased foot traffic.

How is he doing?

We want them unredacted *except what infringe the privacy of the victims*. And because apparently we have to make it clear to the US gov, we consider "victims" the people who were "f*cked without consent", not the rich people annoyed that the victims "damaged their reputation" by revealing they were interesting into r.... children. ... Can I hope to have the monkey's paw on my side?

But the electricity it does use is very often generated by burning gas. That said, Im not convinced this would be a net saving; using the stairs uses energy which need replenishment through food, the production of which also heavily depends on oil and gas. The production cycle from fertilizer to plate is longer, so the effects in food availability and prices will only really start hurting in 6 months or so, rather than now, so i guess short term it might help theoretically some unmeasurably small fraction of a percent? long term an elevator is probably more efficient.

Motors draw a lot of energy, and since elevators are more of a convenience than a necessity, walking up the stairs saves power for more important functions.

His comment is that EVERYONE should be working from home. Not seeing how you are misinterpreting an obvious attempt at sarcasm?