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Because commercial real estate leases are long and chances are your company doesn’t want to pay to break it. Not really a good reason, but a popular one I’d be willing to bet.

Also sales people. More specifically sales managers. Who, incidentally, often go on to occupy executive level positions, taking their beliefs about the supremacy of face to face meetings with them.

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Commercial real estate is cheaper when the lights and HVAC stays off and no cleaning services are needed.

Most companies I've worked for were actually sub-leasing at some point, so it also isn't actually necessary to break the lease at all and could only have administration costs as long as the rest of the market is maintaining the pretense that office space is going to stay valuable. That's actually a good reason to line up a sub-leaser with a contract early.

How can they put their thumb on you and squish you, if they can’t put their thumb on you?

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