[samr71]

These all potentially could or could not happen, but I think they're possible given multi-year mass WFT. I'm not guaranteeing these, but I've seen them discussed.

For the company: - Lower productivity (burnout, people not adequately connected, people not on same page, more difficult to manager remote workers, more distractions) - Less innovation - Less / No company culture - Less employee satisfaction; harder to recruit at all WFT firms - Difficulty onboarding new employees

For employees: - Competing with talent globally, lower wages - Fewer perks - Less community, more atomization

[ghaff]

I was mostly responding to "I'd argue it certainly won't be great for the average worker"

Many of us were working remotely before the current situation. I guess that makes me not average. But many people are saying they're looking forward to not going back to a commute every day even if they stay in the same general area and maybe go in a day or two a week for collaboration/meetings. The big negative for me has been working remotely during a pandemic with my usual 100 or so days of travel curtailed.