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This is why zoning is really bad. Those company could have converted some of those space into housing. Provide it to the employee as benefit for cheap/free. I believe quite significant number of employee would happily live on campus.


One step closer to a company town. And makes the prospect of a job change that much more painful.


Yes, it can be painful but not necessarily have to. Its not like there is no way to mitigate the pain.


How does one mitigate the pain of having to move out of company housing because of a job change?


One way, the company could maybe give some amount of money to help with the moving out cost or maybe allow for the employee to stay for a bit longer while they looking for new place to live.


Still that's a lot of hassle compared to just not having to move, such as from independent housing.


It maybe but independent housing has it downside: commute time and high cost.


Lots of office space is simply not suitable for conversion into living space.


What I mean by conversion including demolishing the office building and building apartment instead not just retrofit existing office building to be a living space.


How is zoning really bad ?


Because they can't just convert some of the space in their campus to housing because of zoning.




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