This is why remote work is going to become increasing necessarily, and why bosses/managers/CEOs need to give up the whole 'everyone in the same building between

This is why remote work is going to become increasing necessarily, and why bosses/managers/CEOs need to give up the whole 'everyone in the same building between 9-5' idea once and for all. Software engineers, marketers and other folks with similar service jobs do not need to be in the same building as the rest of their team. That'd fix a few issues right away: 1. It'd fix Silicon Valley's housing prices, since tech workers wouldn't be buying all the houses/apartments. This would remove a pool of people making hundreds of thousands a year from the equation, and ideally causing prices to drop down to an affordable value. 2. It'd mean the actual workers who need to live their work (teachers, nurses, retail staff, etc) would likely be able to afford more, since they wouldn't be competing with software engineers for the same properties). 3. It'd give people an incentive to move to smaller towns/cities/not end up crammed into a single area. Does that mean sprawl? Not necessarily, it could mean other large towns and cities in the UK and US could benefit from a higher population rather than the likes of London/New York/San Francisco sucking up new residents by the million. 4. And in future, maybe it could kill off the idea of immigration/emigration too, at least for the most part. The fact you have to live in a wealthy country to get a high paying job is one of the things that makes stuff like the H1B scheme so lucrative. The idea employees have to be watched over in the same building like prisoners or school students is one of the reasons these house prices are so high and everything is becoming so centralised.