Like hamsters on a wheel
We go round and round because we've "always" gone round and round. The built and economic environment we've let evolve isn't really sustainable, and it seems we're just finding this out courtesy of COVID. But the powers that be don't want to hear the news, so we're exhorted to start the wheel spinning again.
The argument that certain kinds of business will suffer if we don't is no more relevant than the fact that that the once numerous jobs of farriers and street lamp lighters largely disappeared when motor vehicles and electricity became commonplaces. The process they're trying to ignore is called evolution, and its inexorable and ultimately inescapable. The "rush hour" has existed for around 140 years, but given the recently proven means of remote working its time is probably over. Unless of course we force it to continue because some business sector doesn't want to accept change.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
