Either things will die down and people will be back working "as before" in a year or two, or there's going to be a whole lot of companies wondering what happened and why they didn't see it coming. Working remotely increases the hiring radius and provides additional means to retain talent. Those companies that can thrive in that environment might end up with the Missing Talent the older companies are missing. We've just run a 2-year lab test which provided hard data, but "experts don't think, they know". And those who entered the workforce recently have no office environment to fall back to - they will act as a source of resentment against a tradition alien to them.