Comment by advael

In fact I used the key phrase "sunk cost" directly to imply that, since that's entered the lexicon as a common reasoning error

While business leaders want to think of and portray themselves as these hyper-rational actors whose every choice is either made from ingenuity or total necessity, this is obviously false and I think the prestige and optics of office spaces heavily play into the priorities of managers, especially as compared to people who do any other kind of work