We are still paying for these buildings... we have to keep the plumbing up to standards set by our government... same with electrical and even painting...
Sell the buildings, why is this such a major concept that we need Musk to step in?
The offices must be cleaned every night whether the offices are filled or not... and despite what the bureaucrats say... they are not more productive working at home... which is why private industry has forced their employees back to work...
I work in private industry and they have long since cancelled their lease and we work from home as the preferred model. No office costs, heating/cooling costs, no cleaners, no sick bay, no communal toilets to maintain, no canteen, no supplies room, no security guards, costs...
I am more productive working at home, since you do not know what my job is or anyone's job is, how can you assume that a person is always more productive in an office than at their home? Explain, please how can you determine productivity of a person when you have no idea what their job is?
Consider a composer or artist (for example) do you think they would be more productive by travelling in busy traffic for an hour, trudging upstairs and sitting at a piano with other busy people coming and going, followed by the trudge home?
Or do you think they are more productive by walking to their own studio and doing their composing in the comfort and serenity of their own property?
Why not compel Williams to get in his car every day, trudge through traffic and rainy sidewalks and so on, and stop this lazy goofing off "working" at home like a lazy deadbeat and work like everyone else!
One building was empty for so long the EPA tested the water and had to redo every bit of plumbing... and it was due to non use for too long... not to mention the swollen frozen pipes bursting....
Sell or repurpose the buildings, they'd be ideal for temporarily housing all those migrants that are going to be rounded up, a lot cheaper than building some huge facility - are you really this inept?
