Robots are going to take a lot of the jobs. Covid has simply accelerated that. Hopefully the talk of taxing them will be achievable.
If fulltime WFH becomes permanent (and the genie is perfectly capable of going back - as other countries have demonstrated), it will lead to significant increase in inequality. Lower standards too. It's been terrible from a client and customer perspective.
Many office type employment and career opportunities will be limited to the privileged minority who can afford a suitable WFH environment and are at a settled stage of life
It will be devastating for the poor, insecurely housed, and the young.
Permanent WFH will hit public services as hard or even harder than George Osborne's failed austerity politics. Office based industries contribute hundreds of billions to the national economy.
WFH will harm the lower income groups particularly badly. Sandwich and coffee shop workers, cobblers, dry cleaners, bus, train, and taxi drivers, postroom operatives, office maintenance and office cleaners. Hardworking but low income groups. Millions of jobs and livelihoods at risk.
House prices won't crash. However, if a pp really is right re possessions there is a decent and moral solution (whether it happens is quite another issue). Ideal opportunity for the government to step in to tackle the serious public health emergency of homelessness and insecure housing. In the capital of homelessness alone, London, 165,000 people are homeless. Housing homeless families and vulnerable individuals in expensive temporary accommodation costs the taxpayer billions. Government could buy up the repossessions - to use for desperately needed social housing.