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We will most likely see that jobs that cannot be done by working from home will see an increase in salary and WFH jobs will see a decrease.

I'm thinking about jobs like nurses, electricians, factory workers, teachers etc.

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Depends on the region. The big advantage of WFH is the global job market. I live pretty rural in Germany and salaries are quite a bit lower than in the city. And they are far lower than remote US-jobs. So I easily eclipse all my friends and neighbors with my salary, it's pretty much impossible for them to catch up. They would need to straight-up double or triple their salary, which is unlikely when salary has been pretty stagnant the past decades.

I can see WFH jobs decreasing your salary if you lived in a big city with high wages before, but for anyone else the advantages of global competition pay a massive premium right now. Maybe that changes at some point, but looking at the massive shortage of software experts my country is facing right now, this point is still decades away.

I really hope so! though historically this has not been the case due to the whole "unskilled/low skilled jobs" framing

Is it due to that framing, or due to the balance of supply and demand for that labor and that framing is just an explanation of the supply?

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