The big question that nobody can answer is whether this shift is permanent. Part of the shift comes from the fact that we are in a temporary, exceptional situa

The big question that nobody can answer is whether this shift is permanent. Part of the shift comes from the fact that we are in a temporary, exceptional situation. However, views about remote work may have been changed through first-hand experience. People have been working in offices for literally thousands of years. It would be an epic, once-in-a-millennium historical change if we moved away from that. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. People have also been using paper for the written word for literally thousands of years, and we've made a partial but permanent shift away from that. Maybe remote work will follow a similar pattern.