[dudul]

Zoom and Google Meet existed before COVID. What COVID did was force employers to choose between letting people work from home or shut down. Suddenly, what was impossible a few months ago became totally fine.

It didn't make WFH more viable or acceptable, it exposed the hypocrisy of employers.

[mlyle]

> It didn't make WFH more viable or acceptable

You don't think that things are any easier now that most of the workforce has practical experience with video conferencing and how to coordinate with people in the same office?

I think we both learned how broadly possible it was, and also trained the whole workforce in how to do it.

[tick_tock_tick]

Transition the whole team, and paying for a video conferencing software, to accommodate one person who can't come into the office is exactly what an "undo hardship" is.

[linkjuice4all]

In pre-Covid times didn't companies face this same insurmountable hardship when opening a second location? What do you call your co-worker that works in a different office if not "remote"?

I get that some people really like working in close proximity with others even if their job doesn't really require it - but this really seems to be the case of controlling employers demanding their troops trudge into to an office to demonstrate their value in person - pandemic or disability (or just the general annoyance of commuting to work and all that that entails) be damned.

[BenFranklin100]

You have an ax to grind. Good luck.