The remote work as a "smiling menace" is an interesting way to describe a risk that some friends were talking about prior to the pandemic. I can't tell whether

The remote work as a "smiling menace" is an interesting way to describe a risk that some friends were talking about prior to the pandemic. I can't tell whether is pushed the timeframe forward or back, but the same risk seems to be there. Although outsourcing seems to me to trend in waves.