AI Power Users Are Leading the Return to the Office

When AI tools started becoming genuinely capable a few years ago, one of the first questions the commercial real estate industry asked was what it would do to office demand. The answers that came back were not encouraging for landlords. If AI could handle research, drafting, analysis, and synthesis, the argument went, then the fundamental reason people needed to be together in an office, to share information, to think through problems collectively, to learn from one another, would erode. Why commute to collaborate when a language model could synthesize the collective intelligence of your entire organization and serve it to you at your desk at home? The dystopian version of that future featured rows of individual workers, each in their own environment, each interfacing primarily with AI rather than with each other. The office, in that scenario, was a relic waiting to be rationalized.

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RSK: If this is true then there will be more people going back to the office since Ai is only going to grow.