Rob:

Thanks for reading the article and taking the time to write a comment.

Actually, my point is the opposite.

Corporations like Facebook, for example, are encouraging employees work from home. However, over the next couple of years, Facebook employees will also be expected to move to less expensive areas around the country. Zuckerberg says Facebook will adjust employee pay (obviously lower) based on the cost of living where the employee lives.

Translation - Facebook expects employees to move to less desirable locations because they can telecommute and Facebook gets to keep the savings.

On the other hand, all of the small businesses (like restaurants) located around Facebook's head office will permanently suffer because the lunch and dinner crowd coming out of the Facebook offices, will never recover to 2019 levels now that so many people are allowed to work from home.

In the long term, I'm afraid all the money, time, and sanity telecommunication has given us will ultimately be turned into a new corporate savings source that transfers profits from small local businesses ultimately into the coffers of multi-national corporations.

What do you think?