...besides, once you start hiring remote workers, easier for too many companies to off-shore those jobs for a fraction of the money required to pay for an American. Look at IT in particular, but true in other jobs.
That's been happening long before Covid came around. In financial services, the work getting outsourced & offshored is the repetitive back-office work that hasn't been automated yet.
The kind of work I do isn't outsourced nor will it be. IT Strategy, Cloud Migration and InfoSec functions will remain on-shore and on-prem with FTE's. These are not functions that get outourced or offshored because contractors aren't accountable. They're commodities doing commodity work.