I think this is a wrong take which will be proven by time. The past is not a predictor for the future; if so we would still all be using horses instead of cars

I think this is a wrong take which will be proven by time. The past is not a predictor for the future; if so we would still all be using horses instead of cars. Big reason that there will likely be a fundamental shift to more remote and hybrid working options is that just there is a mountain of inertia from the Industrial age which carried over to the Information Age. The pandemic has initiated a great experiment which individual companies would have never tried for risk-avoidance reasons.