Google may save $1B this year on the P&L, but I can assure you that a large cohort of employees are vastly less effective (especially parents!). Time will tell how wfh pans out in terms of long-term enterprise value creation, after confounding variables (i.e. COVID) are removed.

Source: A lot of my Googler friends are itching to get back into the office -- whether parents or people whose social lives centered around work.

Ninja Edit: Google has already announced their return to work plans, which involves substantially returning to physical office spaces. From early April: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/04/01/google-wan...