There is a clear push toward RTO but rhetoric is more and more PR so what? My two cents are: - with remote work some big&powerful have suffered losses, airlin

There is a clear push toward RTO but rhetoric is more and more PR so what? My two cents are: - with remote work some big&powerful have suffered losses, airlines do work for tourism but do much more for business (witch include people who migrate to another country just to work, and more or less frequently fly back home), rails similarly, exhibition and conference industry obviously as well and so on. They want the old model, because that's the name of the office model, back; - large real estate owners with big downtown's properties have seen the value of their buildings dropped, rents revenues as well, so as those above they want the office model, back; - SME working in downtown's workers services are obviously together. On the worker side: - those who can't work from remote are probably envious of those who can and find their absence around them as a bad thing, since those who can't work remotely AND live in cities tend to have smaller revenues than those who can, being together, with those who lost their downtown's services jobs means the mean richness of a city drop and this led inevitably to a general local quality of life drop; - those who can work from remote, in large parts (the least qualified, who are the most) have homes unsuitable for teleworking simply because they lack a spare room per adult + eventual space for children; another large and almost overlapping cohort do not know what desktop work means, so they try to work on a craptop on sofa, on the bed and so on and obviously find that not really comfy BUT they do not know and partially refuse the concept of having a dedicated desk with large screen(s), a real keyboard and so on, for they "for unknown reasons" offices tend to offer better ergonomics. Beside those MOST fear relocating and substantially change life, most have familiar issues in doing so etc. Those allow to justify in credible manners the RTO push, without stating the substantial point of those who loose from remote working. Another part of the game is the fact that at social level there are simply too many people who do not know what to do in a remote first, mostly tertiary sector society, they have no skill, they do not want loosing wages falling back to less qualified jobs in large geographical areas, similarly public administrations forced to act as an enterprise, especially those from big cities witch so far have much voice and "firepower" are scared by such change. Since to really develop the concept of teleworking for ALL eligible jobs, not just for the most qualified who tend to know how to work remotely effectively, it would take years, as it would take years to calibrate suburban/rural infra for a far bigger number of residents, as it would tae years to re-structure companies management for such new model hybrid work will keep be pushed, imposed and most will accept it for years. After that long and slow adaptation interim, a small batch of people at a time, remote work will became common again. I can't really estimate how many years but something between 5 and 15 in the most probable range IMO...