This times 10,000. A friend worked for a company in Vancouver that rented a building big enough for the 30 person team to work. Before covid they went almost e

This times 10,000. A friend worked for a company in Vancouver that rented a building big enough for the 30 person team to work. Before covid they went almost entirely remote, and all 30 people are flown to Vancouver ~8-10 times a year, put up in fancy hotels to do a 4 or 5 day course in the hotel function room. It's cheaper for the company to pay for all of that than to rent the office space permanently.