[LINK] Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities

[David]

On 5/1/23 09:03, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> This was felt here too during the Pandemic.
>
> The CBD was dead while the Inner West was a buzz with Remote workers 
> going out to lunch, libraries, pool, gym and parks.
Part of the buzz was due to lockdowns when workers had to be home anyway, but there's no doubt working-from-home is here to stay.  Of course there was some backlash from middle-management who could no longer survey their empire from the corner office, but those objections are dissipating in the face of economic reality as companies find their real-estate and associated costs declining.

Having said that, we need to think this through.  Will some inner-city office buildings be repurposed as residential?  And given Australia is trying to reinvigorate our manufacturing industries, will WFH result in a privileged inner-city class of knowledge workers "going out to lunch, libraries, pool, gym and parks" while an under-privileged class of forgotten others are condemned to the same old routine of clocking on at the factory at 08:00?  That would not be good IMO, but I have no idea what to do about it.

_David Lochrin_