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JPMorgan Chase employees believe their work-life balance and health and well-being declined following the bank’s decision to return to office full-time in March, Barron’s reports. Based on an internal survey released this week of 90% of the workforce, the aforementioned areas scored lowest, alongside opportunities for internal mobility.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually, I work in commercial real estate.

It’s not uncommon for there to be triggers on these loans that go into effect when a tenant vacates a property, even if they are still paying rent.

They direct control of their rents and they have to pay a monthly fee for management.

I can promise you, the only reason we returned to remote is luck. Our lease happened to be up at the same time our moral dropped.

Still, many of our employees cheered and celebrated the announcement. Take the wins where you can.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sorry for the ignorance, but why would a lender care about the occupancy of a building?

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

No worries! Ask as many questions as you like!

It affects the value of the surrounding spaces.

Example: A strip mall has a grocery store. If the grocery is active on the property, the surrounding spaces are more valuable to rent. The landlord can rent the spaces to restaurants retail stores because the grocery store has a lot of foot traffic.

If the grocery store “goes dark” or stops operating at the strip mall, the neighboring Chipotles and Game Stops lose money and close. The landlord can’t fill those spaces as easily as when the grocery store was there.

If the spaces are empty, no rent comes in. No rent means no mortgage payments.

Edit: I forgot to add. Commercial mortgages are different than residential for lots of reasons but a big one is the dollar amount. Some of these properties are $100M loans so the trusts and banks involved have a lot more say as to what goes on at the property.

If you want to fix your sink, you do it. If they want to, they have to get permission to make changes.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

That does make sense, thanks.