Good comment. While it seems obvious, the whole environmental, infrastructure cost and land (mis)use aspects are not in the conversation often enough. Usually i

Good comment. While it seems obvious, the whole environmental, infrastructure cost and land (mis)use aspects are not in the conversation often enough. Usually it's only work productivity and preferences. The key observation is really that the societal costs of supporting a commute culture are so enormous that for it to make any sense, the productivity of being in-office would have to be many multiples higher than remote. We can argue whether remote or office is slightly more productive this way or that way, and there are plenty of studies showing both directions so it's probably a wash, depending on team. But no study ever suggests that in-office could possibly be so immensely more productive than remote that it could justify the costs to society of doing it. Of course, it'd be great if there is some research attempting to quantify this more precisely (including road construction & maintenance, inefficient land use, pollution, time lost, health impact from the stress, and on and on). Any links?