[Otter74]

I sort of dream of this. I have a job that is considered essential (legitimately), and in fact I could do 85% of it sitting at my dining room table like I am now and connecting to our network. The other 15%, when I need to meet with a vendor or inspect a vehicle or whatever, I can just hop on my bike or in my car and go there. But my department has a very hidebound culture that is not big on that, so while about 2/3 of our office is working from home, I continue to travel 15 miles each way every working day to sit in an office in front of a computer all day. I don't complain because I appreciate the way this made my life continue to be very normal-feeling, but I would love to be done with my commute. I don't want to move because I love my neighborhood, and I miss my old 20-minute-bike-ride commute before our office moved. I do think that this will lead to some pretty significant changes as great masses of white-collar workers and their employers realize they don't have to go back and forth to offices every day. While this will be bad for the support system of the existing model, I think this will be good for us overall, particularly for those who live in car-dependent suburbs or have long city commutes.