People working from home is not a failure of modern office design. It is a failure of the core concept of the office itself. It no longer has value to offer.

People working from home is not a failure of modern office design. It is a failure of the core concept of the office itself. It no longer has value to offer. Originally, factories were necessary because physical colocation of workers was physically necessary. It was a sacrifice, an overhead taken on that created its own problems but which paid for them in overall benefit. Those benefits are now gone. Offices are now dead weight, an inefficiency that will be eliminated (as will be the unfortunate few barnacles who cling to their underbelly and previously solved some of the problems offices invented). Maybe not tomorrow, but eventually they will. They destroy value, and add none.