[betwixthewires]

For the equity minded in here, think of this perk: work that requires you to be on location now comes at a premium. This means that retail workers and other blue collar workers can demand better pay. Why work for 9 bucks an hour flipping burgers when you can do the same remote as a call center rep? I know most people I've talked to would rather take a pay cut than return to the office. We have lived a world where the commute for information workers can be replaced with a VPN for about a decade now, and the inertia preventing that was absolutely destroyed. Any company taking a bet that they can browbeat employees back to commuting is going to lose.

Deurbanization will accelerate. There's just no value proposition in cities for white collar workers anymore, and therefore service jobs that cater to them and blue collar work catering to a city directly. They're ruins already and don't know it yet.