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Well a few thoughts. I feel like your question is trying to excuse reckless disregard (at best) as mere incompetence.

I don't think if you sum up all the value on all the leases of wasted buildings it would be a drop in the bucket against the psychological damage (e.g. distrust in the system) being caused by this administration. Like unless it's more than 1% of the national budget (i.e. > 67 billion a year) then it isn't worth the chaos.

And a competent administration that wanted to end leases really shouldn't have started RTO, so let's try not to fabricate plausible deniability here.

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>I feel like your question is trying to excuse reckless disregard (at best) as mere incompetence.

Ehh, sometimes I'm really not sure how many of the sloppy decisions that are made are malicious, and how many are incompetent.

>Like unless it's more than 1% of the national budget (i.e. > 67 billion a year) then it isn't worth the chaos.

For people like Musk, chaos is a feature not a bug. Shaking a lot of low-value-add employees and processes out of their comfort zones is the point.

>And a competent administration that wanted to end leases really shouldn't have started RTO

I think the Scheme of Maneuver is:

Phase 1: Bring everyone into the otherwise-nearly-empty offices.

Phase 2: Figure out who is dead weight. Fire them.

Phase 3: Figure out what max occupancy should be after the fat has been cut from the workforce, and cut all unneeded office space.

Phase 4: Maybe allow some limited WFH (I'm not holding my breath on this one).