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>I haven't traveled well enough recently to agree or disagree, but this matches my reading, so I'll take your argument.

Yeah, it's not just return to office. I was at KubeCon in Amsterdam last week and it was the largest KubeCon Europe ever with 10K in-persona attendees. Add the 2K who wanted to go and couldn't get in and it was almost 2x the attendance of KubeCon in Valencia a year ago. (And that's in an environment where a lot of tech companies have cut back on travel spend.) So, nope, nope, conferences aren't all going virtual.

And, although I don't have numbers, I'm pretty sure that a lot of the food and grocery delivery and other services that really soared during the pandemic have probably largely returned to earlier levels.