Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Because I am generally against coercion if there is another way. So coercion only when there is absolutely no other option. Basically as a proportionality of means. And here specifically, since there are no immediate threats, one could try it differently at first.

Just as employees cannot be forced to come to the office permanently without any meaningful reason, supervisors cannot be forced to allow remote work permanently. Objectively, it is also truly challenging to manage creative processes remotely. As much as I appreciate the possibilities of home office for various reasons, it is not a cure-all for everything and has its limits.

From my own experience, I can only say that the quality of life in Bad Langensalza is leagues higher than in Munich. I know both, have undertaken such a project myself, and live maybe 50 km from Dad Langensalza. Before that, several years in Munich and more years in Nuremberg.

At least I can let my child play alone in the village and go to the playground. And a school like the one here on site you will hardly find in Munich.

But well, I have already written here about population density and quality of life.

One more note on the topic of home office, just now the article "Offices in Transition »Rent half, make it twice as cool« flew past me. I find it very fitting.

I can only say from my own experience that the quality of life in Bad Langensalza is worlds higher than in Munich.

Then I asked the wrong people, and I really mean exactly that, and/or I didn't have the opportunity to get someone who could take away these people's fears. I didn't suggest it without reason - it was simply rejected. Unfortunately. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to involve someone like you, who has personal experience.

Because I am generally against coercion when there is another way. So coercion only when there is absolutely no other option. Basically as a proportionality of means. And here specifically, since there are no immediate threats, one could try it differently at first.

Basically, I agree with you. But voluntary measures don't work, at least not everywhere, as we are seeing right now. In any case, in our environment, many companies have restricted or abolished remote work again. And incentives cost money, which we don't have, especially if I look at the cutback lists in Berlin right now. And why should companies be given incentives (from taxpayers' money) for something that already saves them money anyway?