Remote work is great because it reduces carbon emissions/reduces noise pollution/reduces traffic - These are related. There is absolutely no evidence for this.

Remote work is great because it reduces carbon emissions/reduces noise pollution/reduces traffic - These are related. There is absolutely no evidence for this. In the U.S. traffic in 2021 was higher than in 2019 despite significant remote work and has only been going higher since. Electricity consumption has been higher as well (which is obvious…heating or cooling an office space with tens or hundreds of people is almost certainly more efficient than heating tens or hundreds of different spaces with 1-2 people in them). increases residential rent revenues - I’m not sure what you mean but if you mean higher rent, I think most would agree that high rent is a massive problem in the U.S. and high rents aren’t a good thing. increases work satisfaction - Yes, the evidence shows that this appears to be the case for a decent majority of people. But the satisfaction numbers may drop with distance with COVID so we need to see if this holds up. increases hobby engagement - I’m not sure there’s any evidence for this. improves child - there is a correlation here but it’s not clear how much of it is a result of the large percentage of women who’ve dropped out of the workforce to care for children since COVID. and generally gives people their time back - The evidence points in the opposite direction. Since the massive increase in WFH people are very clearly stating that work has taken over all hours in their life. Once again, this may be due to the lack of establishment of norms due to the limited time, so it may improve, but the evidence isn’t clear in either direction. Another point is that most of these benefits are a result of avoiding (although it isn’t clear that this is even the case) bad commutes. Which is largely driven by bad infrastructure design which may not be the case in places which don’t have the bad infrastructure design, which would contain a lot of major population centers outside USA/Canada.