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Nothing happens in a vacuum. "Tech companies" act in a coordinated fashion despite claiming they don't. Remote work was great until it wasn't. This is a coordinated action to shed all the mass gathered during ZIRP. Market forces is one naive explanation. But as history has shown factors extraneous to market forces are at work. This period will be written about, analyzed and diced in thousand different ways by future "thought leaders".