I don't really see this idea getting talked about much when the return to office/work from home thing gets discussed. Sure there are multiple reasons RTO is getting pushed, but this might be a larger reason why. The long term goal for business *is* work from home, but what they'd mean be that is as jobs can be untethered to an office they can then also be laid off and outsourced to third world countries. And the cheapest way to make any transition is nice and gradually, not all at once. Plus let's say they could move every work from home job out of the country all at once. The shock to the system would get people to actually pay attention, organize, get political. No, businesses also need this to be gradual so the frogs in the pot don't realize all the office jobs are disappearing entirely, being outsourced or replaced by ai, and the only work that's left is minimum wage labor or starving.