Selfishly, from a hiring perspective, it bums me out that the secret is now well-known. I've been working remote/hybrid-remote and recruiting remote/hybrid-remote teams for 12 years. I absolutely LOVED that all the dinosaurs were resistant to remote work because it was a recruiting magic wand. Then the pandemic came along and suddenly everyone was more or less forced to see that remote work works and now that recruiting advantage has lessened some.
Besides that, though, things are not binary. We're never going to go to a world where 100% of all people/all-roles that could be done remotely will ONLY be done remotely. There will always be a mixture, however small perhaps, of people that will do in-person companies and/or in-person jobs even if they don't need to.
One thing is clear though... remote is and has been a trend for quite some time. COVID merely thru jet fuel on that existing trend and sped it up probably by 15 years. And I would say that's a good thing.
Besides that, though, things are not binary. We're never going to go to a world where 100% of all people/all-roles that could be done remotely will ONLY be done remotely. There will always be a mixture, however small perhaps, of people that will do in-person companies and/or in-person jobs even if they don't need to.
One thing is clear though... remote is and has been a trend for quite some time. COVID merely thru jet fuel on that existing trend and sped it up probably by 15 years. And I would say that's a good thing.