I'm certain that if some natural disaster suddenly made all the roads impassible, "business" would very quickly adapt to remote work for all employees. Yes the

I'm certain that if some natural disaster suddenly made all the roads impassible, "business" would very quickly adapt to remote work for all employees. Yes there are edge cases - roles that require physically manipulating stuff that isn't accessible remotely - but a vast number of roles could certainly be moved remote. The usual arguments against remote work would either be discovered to be not actual problems (such as the fear that remote workers won't actually do their work) or business/workflow systems would be implemented to resolve the new problems. Business is traditionally very slow to adapt to changes. That's why big laggard companies get little done and make few innovations, but they buy startups that took risks and did new things. (Now unfortunately, they often absorb those innovative young companies and crush the soul out of it, leaving just another drone department.)