I do think there's a serious possibility that hybrid-remote work actually increases spatial inequality though. Hybrid-remote work enabling white-collar workers to relocate to the exurbs seems like it encourages metros to become more like Chicago, with extreme white-collar job concentration in the Loop coupled with extreme residential dispersal. And this entails Chicago-style service-sector job dispersal, where workers without college degrees face much thinner labor markets.
Very interesting.
I do think there's a serious possibility that hybrid-remote work actually increases spatial inequality though. Hybrid-remote work enabling white-collar workers to relocate to the exurbs seems like it encourages metros to become more like Chicago, with extreme white-collar job concentration in the Loop coupled with extreme residential dispersal. And this entails Chicago-style service-sector job dispersal, where workers without college degrees face much thinner labor markets.