This is a good move (except for location-based pay), and follows Facebook's reversal where they expanded full time remote work options to most employees (https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/what-remote-and-flexib...). If Google, Amazon, and Microsoft (beyond LinkedIn) don't smarten up, they will experience a drain of their best talent to other companies. Just as a reminder, the common trope that physical co-working allows innovation through chance meeting has no evidence (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/upshot/remote-work-innova...).