But not all reverse commuters feel that a suburban office is a drawback.
The collapse of the 1980's building boom in suburban offices and shopping malls has forced many real-estate developers to turn elsewhere.
For example, surging home prices of the 1970's and 1980's forced many workers to move far from their suburban offices or plants.
The interiors of the headquarters building, for the most part, are ordinary, even banal, more like conventional suburban offices than anything Wright would have envisioned.
In December 2012, it was announced that Wrapports will be closing all of its suburban offices and moving remaining employees downtown.
Four years later, with their own families and therapy work expanding, they closed the city store and opened the suburban mail-order office.
Though Turner is a sole practitioner working out of a modest suburban office, Ford has no greater legal nemesis.
In our suburban offices, a lot of the families work in corporations which move people around a lot.
But despite the public pretensions of its atrium, what the project resembles most is a suburban office park plunked down on the island of Manhattan.
The first suburban step-by-step office opened in Palo Alto in 1929.