Our office has been back open for months and months now. Barely anyone comes in. Unmentioned in this article is what I think is one of the big reasons why, whi

Our office has been back open for months and months now. Barely anyone comes in. Unmentioned in this article is what I think is one of the big reasons why, which is the housing affordability and vacancy crisis. For older and wealthy workers they may have housing near the office, but for the new generation they've been priced out of anything in the cities, and young designers and programmers at my work are often still living at home in their parents' suburban basements. Of course they'd rather WFH than waste their day commuting in. I don't blame them. On the other end of things many older workers with families used the opportunity to move elsewhere hours and hours away from the office and get a "cheap" SFH. They now have no option but to WFH. Basically the government's complete inaction on housing policy has created an environment where everyone, except those lucky enough to already have housing, is worse off continuing to work in the big cities. When I was a 20 year old I moved to Vancouver and got a cheap apartment in a cool part of town and I didn't even have that good of a job. Due to bad housing policy, that sort of opportunity is completely closed to young people these days.