AT&T needs to put their real estate assets to work! Repurpose those few hundred thousand owned office buildings! Lease them out! NYC has been doing this for years…
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It’s too dangerous for the network to have residential space in any company building with office equipment.
Let’s say Mr. Jason ski buys or rents a condo in the building and starts a fire. Water can make its way into the c/o and short out equipment. I’ve seen it happen with a leaky batter on a floor above. Or Mr. Kazinsky decides to get into the firework shipping business and while making his special firework there is an explosion and it causes damage on the c/o floor. Or he decides to be Bill Nye the science guy and sets off an EMD and knocks out everything in the c/o?
We already have procedures for collocate spaces. Instead of office space or residential. Rent out space for server farms. It would help our generators. Due to decoms, and lack of new investment. Our generators are wet stacking due to having more generator than we need now. Generators like having a load to burn up the fuel completely, otherwise it wet stacks and I burned fuel starts leaking from the heads and into the crankcase.
Ha yes make employees go into dirty, moldy and asbestos-ridden places instead of investing in them to produce income.
CONVERT TO HOUSING! GET A NEW ROLLING INCOME STREAM!
That would mean spending millions to update facilities, remodel, clean, remove asbestos, mold, repave parking lots, etc.. all while companies are still downsizing and consolidating their work forces. There is millions of square feet of empty office spaces in the cities, will probably take a decade or more corporate real estate to recover.
The bigger picture for RTO is, Wall Street and the Government needs people driving, eating out, spending money, leasing their assets and paying taxes. It’s estimated that RTO avg. daily cost is $50.