For true remote with employees at their homes, security failures become far more likely. There is a middle ground. One can open up small offices in small citie

For true remote with employees at their homes, security failures become far more likely. There is a middle ground. One can open up small offices in small cities. For example, instead of 1000 people in a city of 5,000,000 people, it could be 20 people in 50 cities that have 100,000 people. Each site gets a VPN connection, with the hardware physically secured in a commercial building. The COL goes way down. The commute becomes tiny for most people. I'm in that situation, and my commute is 3 minutes if I use a car.