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Remote vs Hybrid Office Real Estate Sink.

Calculate the true financial drain of maintaining Class A commercial real estate for partially-empty hybrid teams vs the yield of redirecting that OPEX into marketing.

## The Ego of the Empty Headquarters

Many legacy CEOs mandate 'Hybrid (3 days a week)' simply to justify the 10-year lease they signed on a massive Class A glass tower downtown. The reality is that on Mondays and Fridays, the office is a ghost town, and you are paying $65/sqft to heat an empty room.

### FAQ

**Q: Why model this against Marketing LTV:CAC?**
A: Capital is fungible. If you are burning $1.5M a year on empty conference rooms, that is $1.5M that could have been placed into Facebook or Google Ads. If your LTV to CAC ratio is 3.5x, keeping the large office literally costs the company $5.25M in highly-liquid enterprise value creation every single year.