The interesting thing for me is that I deal with group 2, but I work in a place with multiple head offices, and they've been like that since the early 90s. Rem

The interesting thing for me is that I deal with group 2, but I work in a place with multiple head offices, and they've been like that since the early 90s. Remote working, in the sense that very few medium or large businesses have a single location, is the norm. It always has been. What has also been the norm is shitty ways of dealing with that - creating a de facto priveleged class of decision makers in one location, flying people around, and the like. I agree there's not going to be a reconciliation between people who mostly want to work where-ever suits them (whether that's home or a satellite office) but a rational response to reality would be to do a better job of dealing with what was already there before COVID.