Yes, remote work has always been a thing. The claim is that COVID will accelerate the trend toward a global and remote workforce. Companies have been forced in

Yes, remote work has always been a thing. The claim is that COVID will accelerate the trend toward a global and remote workforce. Companies have been forced into large-scale WFH experiments. If the experiments show that productivity is totally fine without open office plans and in-person collaboration over lunch break, then they will inevitably ask why they shouldn't save a ton of money by hiring a greater proportion of engineers outside of the Bay Area.