The time bomb began ticking around the time people started getting broadband connections and work-from-home/video-calling became viable (so around 2007). The su

The time bomb began ticking around the time people started getting broadband connections and work-from-home/video-calling became viable (so around 2007). The surprising thing is the cultural shift took 15 years to play out, and needed an actual global pandemic to really push it through even then, and even then there is a massive effort to put the genie back in the bottle. Turns out office buildings are just another form of technology that has been superseded by something that just works better, deal with it banks.