"Our company's return to office policy starts next week and I am really not looking forward to it," they wrote in the wee hours of Friday morning. One aptly bemoaned suburbanites who "treat downtown and the neighbourhoods they commute through like nuisances they have to put up with." "Did you accept a position to work at a downtown office when you first got a job?" Commentbyu/TheOriginalRealMVP from discussionintorontoIndeed, to the original poster's point, the millions of square feet of vacant office space that Toronto has amassed since the pandemic have been cause for concern, with the City looking at potential adaptive reuse in recent years, including converting empty towers to housing. "The loss of office space is typically a permanent outcome that cannot be reversed later if market conditions change," a page on Toronto's ongoing Office Space Needs Study reads.