A huge economic shift is coming. Post-pandemic, things will not go back to the way they were pre-pandemic.
Companies are downsizing their plans for new office construction. The assumption now is that people will spend more of their week working from home.
Commercial property won’t go away, but the home will take on a more prominent role as an integral part of the workplace.
New kinds of services will arise to cater to the growing market that this will create. For example, health and wellness while working in the home will gain in prominence, as millions of new customers show up for that market.
To take just one category of such a market, “aging at home” will start to be tied to the work economy in a fundamental way. Older people will consequently find it easier to enter a newly configured workforce.
These will all be great changes, if they are done properly.