A company that was before 400 people, can now be 200 people. But people will rarely make meaningful bonds outside of those 5 people closest to them (Dunbar's number).

This numerical accounting perspective so widespread with engineers and computer scientists is the sort of reasoning that is bringing us to disaster.

There might also be companies where a few people work together doing different things, that used to each be a department. They won't have their jobs in common, but they'll bond over working in a strange new type of business and the mental agility required to be responsible for so much output.

I hope, anyway!

Woodworking, shoemaking, metallurgy, even services like plumbing or an electrician are getting harder and harder to find. Building and repairing electrical machines. Refinery of oil-based products. Manufacturing of computers and circuitboard beyond the most basic.

There is no manufacturing sector, anymore. It’s all gone.

Tangential anecdotal point: I used to have an antique "home improvement" book from 1910 or so. The exquisite wood joinery that was shown there (as the achievable standard for the motivated man-of-the-house) does not exist anymore, it’s not being taught.