The real reasons are probably just two: - for a general perspective remote work means we have no tangible reasons anymore to live in dense areas, where service

The real reasons are probably just two: - for a general perspective remote work means we have no tangible reasons anymore to live in dense areas, where services reign, that's means braking the push toward "you'll own nothing" because people rediscover the value of owning a home, tools etc instead of live to work just to pay services; - in-office means being geographically bound, having some friends and so on, so being a bit more tied to a company than a remote worker, who is actually like an external contractors. If you work from remote switching from a company to another means no "office" or "physical" change, you just change few URLs, projects but the rest will be the same. These two are IMVHO the most tangible and generally ignored things. Did you imaging an Uber service in a vast spread are where anyone have a car and a garage, no parking problems at all? Did you imaging Just Eat in such are? Public transportation? Ready-made food? MOST of such business became meaningless. People living at home love to have a nice home, party at home, not much going to the new shopping center, going in nature (witch is so far free) instead of going spending some money downtown and so on. This economical model it's not much different than the classic Keynes joke about digging a hole now, fill it tomorrow, re-dig it tomorrow after BUT for those who profit from such business means big money.