From zippia.com: 27% of U.S. employees work remotely, as of 2023. There are expected to be 36.2 million American employees working remotely by 2025. 16% of U.S. companies are fully remote.
And I would be one of them.
But the post to which I replied was recommending remote work while residing in a foreign country to avoid US taxes on the first $120,000 of income. That is an extremely rare combination of circumstances which requires quite a bit of luck to encounter and flexible attitudes to adapt to the changes in lifestyle. As good as those deals can be, they don't last very long either.
BTDT
Like I said, "it cannot work for everybody, or even very many people."
These days, I can work mostly from home in a US setting. Even so, there are facilities and equipment which I cannot bring to my house. A central facility is needed for certain tests and experiments.
I have also seen many five-minute lunchroom conversations which decided multi-million-dollar product development and sales activities. There is a critical need for face-to-face personal contacts in such matters and a corporate office of some kind is a good way to inspire them. A small corporate office, with a lunchroom and conference rooms is what I see that works best.
Remote work is definitely here to stay, regardless of how it may offend the egos of corporate executives and managers. But there remains a need for some office space. Just not as much as we have now.
I love WFH.