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I also did remote long before the whole COVID business, and I think you're half right.

I do think remote was a "fad" to some degree, people were ushering in a "new era of work that will forever change things", and that clearly wasn't going to happen. While I do really like remote work, it's not without its downsides, both for employees and employers. I think almost everyone who worked remote before COVID realized this.

That said, certainly for software development, I don't think remote work is going away. It existed before COVID and will exist after COVID, and in that sense it's not a "fad". I also think software dev is the best example of where remote works well because fundamentally it's an individual activity, and it's also an activity where I feel text communication often works better than verbal communication (although verbal still has value, of course).