Unless upper management goes full-time remote, then power (and ambitious employees) will always consolidate.
It’s great when you have a family with kids and you’re less career focused. But I noticed my comp increased almost 2x their’s over the same timeframe.
This is also true when you're at a home office, and you get acquired, and it becomes a remote office. Your career gets fucked.
I've had it happen to me over and over again; and it's very different when you work at the headquarters.
It's my biggest worry about 'permanent WFH'. It's that I'll end up being like the remote-office nightmare all over again.
If the commitment is there for WFH to become an option for all, corporations will promote one or more WFH VPs to send the message that it’s OK, as occurred for women and minorities. I’d guess they’d choose rising stars with personal commitments that make WFH the obvious humane and moral choice.