>Most viable businesses with a steady revenue stream can afford to rent office space and furnish it on their own
Yes, but do they want to?
My experience is that companies increasingly want to focus on their core competencies and nothing else, especially if the non core areas come with overhead in the form of full time employees. I could easily see non-HQ locations outsourced to a company like WeWork. For a satellite office of 50 people there is hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual overhead that could be drastically slashed by a local provider operating at much vaster scale. Less liability and variability for the employer and the employees likely end up with a better quality work environment.
It's a bit like the discussions you read around cloud provider costs vs. doing things in-house (or whatever). There are a lot of overheads associated with a big company doing peripheral tasks in-house.
For example, to your point, that 50 person satellite office probably needs a full-time office manager and then all the costs that percolate upstream associated with having a full-time office manager and another lease to manage/office to service.
It may be worth it to have your own location with your own branding etc. Or you may just want a location where a bunch of employees can work, have meetings with customers/partners, etc. with minimal hassle.
Yes, but do they want to?
My experience is that companies increasingly want to focus on their core competencies and nothing else, especially if the non core areas come with overhead in the form of full time employees. I could easily see non-HQ locations outsourced to a company like WeWork. For a satellite office of 50 people there is hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual overhead that could be drastically slashed by a local provider operating at much vaster scale. Less liability and variability for the employer and the employees likely end up with a better quality work environment.