I’m somewhat less sure. In a lot of cases in software, someone today in location L is creating software for the world and only a tiny slice of users are in the geographic/political entity where L is located. I don’t see the same level of natural protections for workers in CA, MA, TX that are present for the telemedicine example.

If you’re writing software for the world, you might have temporarily enjoyed a bubble few decades in time where you could serve the world but only had to compete on an even footing against other labor situated in a high-cost area. This world-scale pre-post test of working remotely may be the discontinuity that aligns a global workforce to a global user base.

(Remote collaboration completely sidesteps the H1B issue, of course.)