...as someone who over the past 50 years has had hundreds of employees and who has tried “work at home”, this “work at home” fantasy is a stopgap (meaning ok if you have no choice when the next democratic party Covid type scam comes along) NOT a permanent solution. NOBODY really “wants” to work at home, they just think they do. Human nature is to “get up, get out and GO”.
Interestingly, the cost savings was a small part of my decision. What really drove this decision for me was the abject idiocy of doing business in any jurisdiction where a governor or mayor could simply declare my business “non-essential” and tell me I had to close it down for an indefinite period of time. No ‘effing way was that ever going to happen.