Related to that I’m interested how office cliques will work. It’s pretty damn easy to exclude someone if everyone is working from home. Unless they are scouring calendars they may not even know they were left out of an important meeting. Seems like a nightmare for a office with more passive-aggressive types.
Face-to-face conversations have such a huge latency/throughput advantage over online discussions that the remote employees are typically left out of the loop.
(At least, that's been my observation at dedicated remote vs hybrid companies. Maybe things will change post-pandemic, but I'm not optimistic.)
Offer remote work and then offer no advancement opportunities until they quit, so you don't take the unemployment hit. Voila, you have shifted the costs unto them to go find a new job.
I believe MBAs are going to love this new world order. The privilege to show your face in the office will become a sign that you've "arrived" and all your time before that will be working towards that privilege.
Any office will be the new corner office.