By David S. Kerr

There seems to be one thing workforce experts, business analysts and economists can agree on: When it comes to the state of the workforce they have as many questions as the rest of us.

For instance, where have all the workers gone, and when will those who worked in offices ever physically go back?

The remarkable thing about this economy is we didn’t enter this new world of not physically going to work deliberately or piecemeal. Thanks to COVID, we had no choice but to do it wholesale. You name the job, and it went from an office environment to being at home and online overnight.

After that, the culture changed fast. There are now new and old employees who have made it a condition of employment that they work from home all the time.

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David Kerr is an adjunct professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University and has worked on Capitol Hill and for various federal agencies for many years.