I work in a bioinformatics related field and we were hybrid and remote pre-pandemic, mostly because we had offices and colleagues in multiple states. They struggled to enforce a hybrid 3 days in the office for folks near an office because we were already set up to meet virtually and senior management didn’t want to commute and weren’t in the office regularly. Periodic initiatives to hire near office locations failed because of the additional salaries and time required to find talent (especially Boston compared to elsewhere). That said, just 4 or 5 years ago we were doing telephone only conferencing without shared screens. So the tech has evolved quickly, to the point where I would say today for technical content virtual meetings are more productive and efficient than in person meetings. These days, rarely do I hear clients who tend to be more on-site companies say ‘sorry I’m late, I’m coming from another building’ or ‘I’m being kicked out of my conference room, gotta go NOW’ which was a daily or weekly occurrence pre-pandemic. Zoom first is here to stay.