It's wild how much the introduction of remote work into most office jobs changed the world. These days, you'd be hard-pressed to find a company in NYC that doesn't implement some work-from-home element, with most jobs having a hybrid model. The 3-day in-person workweek is ubiquitous.
I was still in college in 2020 and 2021 when remote work was at its highest, but I could see its positive impact through my online classes. Without going around campus all day, I could get so much more work done when my schedule was fully remote. It might not have been good for my mental health to have no social life, but boy howdy was I productive and good at all my classes! I'm sure it was the same for other people who no longer had a commute eating into their daily schedule. One company that was thriving doing remote work decided to switch to only working in person. Unfortunately, it didn't work out well for them.