[yang10pan]

Do you think the journey for most employers will be to become remote-friendly first before becoming remote-first, rather than jumping straight to remote-first?

That's a very interesting insight and probably brings a lens of reality to actual extent of the movement towards remote. To the end that remote-friendly is the first step towards remote-first (and that the big tech companies already have some employees that are distributed), it'll be interesting to see whether there will be a step-change in the volume/percentage of remote-first roles once any of the big tech companies make the leap...

[amursft]

I think it probably happens gradually a lot. And I think many companies will go by team or by function like e.g. support, dev

Companies that want to hire remote or offer it should publish numbers on percent working remotely. Good marketing and helpful for the industry if you think remote work is net good.