If having 95% of the workforce together in one campus is the most efficient for them to operate and make money, shouldn't we applaud them for making that decision? It was 15 short years ago when the entire company nearly went belly up because they were completely inefficient in just about everything they did.

Remember when they would sell hundreds of thousands of cars at a loss just so they could claim the highest market share? Very similar if they were to keep workers in a space that held them back, simply because of decisions that were [[correctly) made nearly 30 years ago.

Sure, moving to the RenCen in 1996 sounded great. It worked.

But a lot has changed.
The workforce has shrunk. They don't need all that space.

The industry has changed. They need to be agile and flexible.

Technology has changed. Many people can do their jobs from anywhere, which wasn't the case back then.

If this helps keep GM running as the lean, profitable, smart business that we demanded they become during the bailouts, then why complain about it? GM brought this space back to life, got 25 good years out of it, and now hopefully someone else will find a way to transform the space into something that fits better with today's world.