Globe tells employees to keep working at home for rest of year

Less than two weeks ago, the same expert was fretting over the Boston Herald not having office space in Boston proper. Now, the Boston Globe announces it will keep its mostly empty Boston address (rented office space) but insists employees, many living outside of Boston, not come there often. Isn't this mostly "keeping up appearances" and a distinction without a difference?

For years, many suburban lawyers, hoping to get lucrative Boston cases, began entering into agreements with Boston landlords to rent a simple mailbox at a "prestigious" Boston address that they could use on their letterhead and advertising. They would then have the mail forwarded to their suburban homes. Since the days of bustling newspaper newsrooms are long past, the papers might wish to copy the lawyers and simply rent a Boston mailbox. It now seems the Herald was the leader in reducing its needless city footprint.