Until COVID-19, the media trend was a relentless attack on suburbs. However long the pandemic lasts, the mass experiment in remote work is likely going to have

Until COVID-19, the media trend was a relentless attack on suburbs. However long the pandemic lasts, the mass experiment in remote work is likely going to have indelible impacts. Why would profitable companies want to pay big city prices for employee salaries when the evidence for many can be just as or almost as productive using remote workers with much lower cost of living?