Do you think the journey for most employers will be to become remote-friendly first before becoming remote-first, rather than jumping straight to remote-first?

That's a very interesting insight and probably brings a lens of reality to actual extent of the movement towards remote. To the end that remote-friendly is the first step towards remote-first (and that the big tech companies already have some employees that are distributed), it'll be interesting to see whether there will be a step-change in the volume/percentage of remote-first roles once any of the big tech companies make the leap...