For the sake of argument, let's say that COVID is over. Let's say that it has been eradicated. OK, awesome. I'm really struggling to wrap my head around the fact why that means we have to round up all of the office workers and force them to return to their little cubicles ASAP, when the past two years have been one of the greatest developments in the workers rights movement since the 40 hour work week.
It really just seems like the bourgeois (and PMC) want to strip away every bit of autonomy over our own lives we've gained since the beginning of this pandemic (and this is just for those of us who are privileged enough to work remotely)
My company literally just announced a plan to phase out hybrid work (two days in the office, three days remote) with the hopes of eventually returning to normal (five days a week in the office).
How is this shit sticking
Many cities and towns (which are already near broke all the time paying cops) rely on commercial real estate property taxes to prop up the massively subsidized suburbs and in some cases specifically single family homes. Paradoxically more people working from home and not interacting with commercial real estate would actually result in many cities and towns being forced to consider raising taxes on homeowners ( or austerity) to cover falling commercial real estate assessments.
This, plus if work can be done remotely, it can be done from anywhere which means that you don't need to spend $2500 on rent in a "superstar" city, you can live somewhere more reasonable. It always gets back to real estate.
literally everything is just land and the people who live on it, with many projections placed over it.