A lot of times, when people discuss the phenomenon of employers ending work-from-home and try to make their employees come back to the office, people say that the motivation is to raise real estate prices.
I don’t follow the logic at all. How would doing this benefit an employer in any way?
Yes if we’re verrry clever we can think of some plausible link but even then it’s very loosely goosey and purely theoretical. Just because we can draw a dotted line, however thin, doesn’t mean it’s actually real. Jar Jar Binks is a Sith Lord, etc.
As you say, this is something less than a tertiary factor, perhaps a thought that has crossed a few peoples’ minds. But if it’s even given any weight at all, it is outweighed by other considerations, vastly so, every time.