@Blackwater_Park I do think for younger people especially working from home can be difficult. If they are new in the workplace and in their careers then training and face-time with upper level is probably important.
In the service industry they still have to show up. Restaurants, hotels, even hospitals, that can’t be done from remote. Lots of the lower paid industries those people often weren’t treated well to begin with. Some of them their jobs are threatened by robotics and automation coming down the pike anyway.
Employees have been treated more like a number for years.
The flexibility in schedule has had a long time coming. If employers had been more flexible a long time ago the covid situation might not have had so much impact. Now, there is a huge swing in the opposite direction, and might settle back somewhere in the middle. There are all sorts of middles to be had that employers have been reluctant about for no good reason. Like allowing more flexible hours in the office, or a four day work week, or even working from home a day a week.
So much of that could have been done the last 20 or 30 years. Saves on fuel, helps for getting domestic chores done, frees up the full weekend, thins out rush hour in the area, so many reasons to do it.