> they just decided let's go back to exactly how it was before The problem is that the "how it was before" refers to how it was 15-20 years ago. We had been b

> they just decided let's go back to exactly how it was before The problem is that the "how it was before" refers to how it was 15-20 years ago. We had been building towards remote/flexible work for a long time before Covid, Covid was just the catalyst that forced everyone to break through the organizational inertia preventing progress. There was a time when you went to an office, sat in front of a desktop plugged into an ethernet jack and next to a landline phone, and ran a bunch of on prem corporate applications to get your job done. As laptops, smartphones, collaborative SaaS applications, WiFi, 3/4/5G all became ubiquitous, many of the reasons for being in a physical office went away. Now we have this meme world where I bring my work laptop from home to an office (commuting 45+ minutes in the process), connect to shitty WiFi, and get on Zoom calls with my team who are scattered around the world also sitting in offices they've been forced back to.