Also, the office building is a huge revenue generato for rich twits, but only as long as it's filled with people.

Tax cuts. Deals with the city. Owning auxiliary business nearby that's technically not associated with the office like restaurants & gas stations at nearby roads. Investment in oil & car companies or retailers...

Renting you your apartment. While keeping houses beyond expensive.

All that takes a nose-dive if poeple are suddenly sitting halfway around the world at a computer, and thus cannot be sheparded from local fleecing station to fleecing station, and a certain type of rich prick is getting existential dread from that easy but initially expensive and thus exclusive money making scheme going away.