...and if they can offload their lives from a place where a shitty plywood shotgun shack in Fremont goes for a million five to a place where a 40-acre ranch goes for $500k, what harm is done? You are grossly overestimating the empathy of the tech industry. Lean'n'mean is celebrated by everyone who read Reed Hastings' book, or met anyone who read Reed Hastings' book."Hang on a sec... if we just eliminate offices so people work from home, we can cut our real estate costs by 90%, and offload the costs of internet connection, desks, Aeron chairs, ping-pong tables, beanbags, and bespoke Kombucha bars onto the employees, and move those costs off our books!"
It's also way easier to fire someone when you just need to send them an email and disable their Active Directory login, rather than having to meet them in person, and escort them out of the building with security...