I am not sure that's true anymore. Every single application to work remotely that I know of (including mine[*]) has been approved. That said, most people are

I am not sure that's true anymore. Every single application to work remotely that I know of (including mine[*]) has been approved. That said, most people are choosing to continue being based at whatever office they were based pre-COVID and will return to office once the public health situation permits (some already have been choosing to come to the office, though the situation is obviously highly location-dependent and fluid). [*] In my case to relocate to an office of my choosing, though the outcome would have been the same had I applied to permanently WFH.