The transition to remote working and the Great Resignation has allowed corporations to cut costs on unprecedented levels. Both operational, overhead costs such as utilities and maintenance for facilities, as well as capital costs for renting offices, purchasing furniture and appliances for them, and outfitting employee spaces.

The corporations are now able to invisibly offload those costs onto their workers like never before. Remote workers love sitting at our kitchen counter with a laptop, and being able to go pick up the kids or do laundry in-between shifts with no commute, but in reality, we're now paying for the plumbing, to keep the lights on, to push bits through our Internet connections, and we're the ones purchasing office chairs and webcams.

Employers now get a free ride on all such outlays, and they're going to be quite unwilling to set up equitable expense accounts or arrangements whereby they resume paying for this stuff themselves. Remote workers need jobs and so we're going to reluctantly pick up the tab.

Unfortunately, business-class accommodations have advantages of quality, stability, and maintenance that will be unmatched by consumer-grade equivalents. Your Internet connection is designed to watch Netflix and play video games. You're technically not allowed to conduct business or commerce on it, that's against your TOS. Your ISP doesn't care if your connection goes down, but your employer does. Good luck lighting a fire under your ISP's Tier 1; you don't have the clout or the SLAs to complain about outages.