How much trouble is in store for office real estate?
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4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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American workers are stubbornly resistant to giving up working from home. That’s a huge problem for commercial real estate owners and the regional banks that finance them. So what happens when office buildings become ghost towns? Plus, China encourages young workers to move to the countryside, local governments look to employ gig workers and states attempt to modernize unemployment insurance services.
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