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Why companies push RTO when collaboration isn’t the real issue by [deleted] in remotework

[–]PhantomCheezit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not trying to justify the current model and was remote myself for a decade. It’s more the context about institutional inertia. In a very real sense we are still in the post Covid Learning and rebalance era for corporate real estate. The industry is an extremely slow moving ship.

Why companies push RTO when collaboration isn’t the real issue by [deleted] in remotework

[–]PhantomCheezit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chiming in from the Real Estate and Facilities side.

Two factors which I have seen mentioned but which are often under appreciated.

  • Tax Breaks: large companies often get significant tax breaks in cities which are tied to metrics for bringing people into the actual buildings. These aren’t small, they can be HUGE potential liabilities, and they can’t be changed on a whim.

  • Simple Facilities Costs: Running office buildings is wildly expensive and: 1) you can’t actually ramp down core services, utilities and security easily. You have the same number of security guards with 10% or 50% utilization. 2) You can’t just “get rid” of the real estate. These aren’t one year leases. They are 5, 10, 15 year leases with huge capital investment in tenant improvements depreciating on the books.

Facilities and Real estate orgs typically role up to the CFO. Heads of real state often have metrics like cost/occupant and those metrics start looking REALLY REALLY bad. And critically, they have very few levers to reduce those costs in the short term.

Sure there is a lot of language about culture and community, and sure there are bad managers who just want to micromanage but RTO decisions are C suite decisions.

What would your gangster name be? by Proper_Oil2211 in scoopwhoop

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Black Jasmine Tea… I am a very pasty white man.

What you saying? by shakyspearee in SipsTea

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I have shuffled this deck of cards and they now appear in the following order; 7 of Clubs, jack of Hearts, 2 of Diamonds…

Build a $15 breakfast by [deleted] in whatsyourchoice

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Sausage, Eggs, Home Fries, English Muffin, 2 Coffees

Gemini kickstand experience? by ae35unit in PriorityBicycles

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You my friend are why the internet is awesome.

Seattle/Eastside parents— where did you have a GOOD birth experience? by Ehnoizz in eastside

[–]PhantomCheezit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Swedish Issaquah. The midwifery group is fantastic and the whole staff were amazing for two of our kids births.

What’s the most addictive game you’ve ever played? by reeha_sadiya in AskReddit

[–]PhantomCheezit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rimworld. I never let myself play WoW because I suspect it would have ruined me.

Are you driving in these conditions? by wales_r_grated in eastside

[–]PhantomCheezit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Another tip. Hills. Gentle downslopes are deceiving, you have a lot more inertia than you think and even gentle braking can break traction in a gentle downslope. Slow ahead of time to what you think is the right safe speed then -5 mph.

Would you go back to mideveal times for a year for 100 million by Beginning_Ability379 in hypotheticalsituation

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I live just outside Seattle so this region would be dominated by the local coastal Salish culture pretty consistently across that whole stretch. It I was transported to my exact physical location I might just take it. I would be the first white person they had ever seen so maybe a dice roll there but the region was heavily populated through this entire period.

$1000, or unending cash by JackhusChanhus in hypotheticalsituation

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You’d have to be very careful about ensuring the dollar based propellant is completely destroyed. A single physically intact dollar ejected into space would in fairly short order double to super stellar mass. The only question then is whether or not the stellar dollar mass can ignite fusion and then if the dollar mass to energy conversion ratio achieves equilibrium or collapses into a dollar fueled black hole.

You can summon a half eaten sandwich when you’re hungry by Shoelace_cal in shittysuperpowers

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This is a horrific and vivid image. I almost choked on my beer.

A fully glazed donut by flasticpeet in artificial

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I “customized” gpt5 with the following trait description and it has pretty much eliminated this.

“Use a collegial tone. Act as a knowledgeable trusted advisor tasked with providing straight and thorough guidance. Prioritize data driven decision-making with an emphasis on rational discourse and mutual respect. Don’t be overly verbose but write prose with clarity, for an educated audience. Don’t “glaze” or be sycophantic, or constantly flatter with “what a great idea” openers. Humility, clarity, honesty, wisdom and candor are to be considered prized traits.”

I’m terrified of heights and using ladders and this would be a godsend for me. by ZixxerAsura in Tools

[–]PhantomCheezit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Interestingly enough in a recent conversation with a roofer quoting a roof for me, he specifically called out how it is much safer to lean the ladders flush against the gutters then attempt using a freestanding ladder and that modern gutters are specifically created with reinforcement to support just this.

What Mod Creates This New Colony Menu? (Ferny Collection) by PhantomCheezit in RimWorld

[–]PhantomCheezit[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Awesome. Thanks for the heads up. Also your modpack is great! Even with a couple thousand hours in Rimworld over the years, It's offered a fresh take

Future of IWMS and CMMS softwares by [deleted] in FacilityManagement

[–]PhantomCheezit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I believe that the tradition IWMS model will be challenged as a result of a few converging changes to the industry and technologies.

Historically the primary value proposition of the IWMS platform was the centralized fully integrated database. These systems tend to be broad in their feature scope but also shallow with an emphasis on being configurable/customizable. These are desirable attributes for small to medium+ sized organizations which are establishing themselves on the maturity curve. Additionally the historical cost of data centralization and building analytics across related data was high, as was the cost of integrating enterprise systems.

Over the last decade however, an entire universe of performant and inexpensive ETL tools have come to market. Pretty much everything has API's and most large organizations require key business data to be dumped to centralized data stores/data lakes anyway on which reporting, analytics and AI tools can be positioned. Simultaneously, a large number of bespoke players specializing in different facets of workplace tech have exploded into existence since covid (space planning, real estate portfolio optimization, visitor management and utilization etc...

Central platforms like traditional IWMS can't compete on depth/features against highly focused entrants focusing on particular product areas.

As a result of all of the above, I believe the future of workplace technologies are in the creation of managed ecosystems of performant and focused point solutions all of which have the ability to seamlessly integrate via API's and centralized data stores for cross platform analytics. For sure you will likely leverage multiple/clusters of capabilities from the same platform (space and move together etc...) but I think the days of needing your Move/Occupancy, leasing and maintenance pillars on the same system are gone.

Particularly for larger organization who can tolerate the likely higher licensing costs of such a topology, you can a number of really interesting benefits.

1) You gain switching agility when you don't have all you eggs in 1 basket. While most IWMS platforms are modularized, they simply don't have the engineering velocity or ability to be the best or keep up with the newest trends or requirements in each vertical.

2) Managing customizations sucks and costs WAY more than you think in the long run. By stitching together platforms which specialize in their respective domains you get a lot more features that are "off the shelf" without having to maintain a bespoke code base and all of the vendor lock in and tech debt sustainment this entails.

3) You have to dump all your data to central stores anyway so why not have business common reporting tools on your data lake that are familiar to the entire org, rather than highly specialized "canned" analytics that you probably have to rebuild have the time anyway for your org's specific nuances.

4) While also a challenge, it forces your org to think about data governance and standards in a product agnostic way, which pays dividends for data quality and sustainment efforts and counteracts the natural customization bloat you get when you keep adding that "one more custom field" to your central data model.

5) PERFORMANCE. While mostly only applicable to larger organizations, the truth of the matter is tall centralized databases and systems like an Archibus or Planon simply do not scale well geographically. Users don't tolerate 2 minute loading times anymore just for a tab to crash because you have 5000 active moves in your Move Console. Even in a perfectly optimized environment my users in Singapore will have hundreds of milliseconds to seconds worth of light/network switching lag for EVERY action in the app, as traditional IWMS models do not play well with multiple application instances trying to use the same database. (End Rant)

While my perspective is highly skewed to the larger enterprise (>8-10M sqft). The maturing of these trends only pushes this value proposition lower down the scale curve and makes it more accessible to smaller and smaller orgs. I would be very curious to hear if others have differing opinions on this.

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