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【原文】As many office workers adapt to remote work, cities may undergo fundamental change if offices remain under-utilized. Who will benefit if working from home becomes the norm?
Employers argue they make considerable savings on real estate when workers shift from office to home work. However, these savings result from passing costs on to workers.
Unless employees are fully compensated, this could become a variant of parasitic（寄生的）capitalism, whereby corporate profits increasingly rely on extracting value from the public and now personal-_realm, rather than on generating new value.
Though employers are backed by a chorus of remote work advocates, others note the loneliness, reduced productivity and inefficiencies of extended remote work.
If working from home becomes permanent, employees will have to dedicate part of their private space to work. This requires purchasing desks, chairs and office equipment.
It also means having private space dedicated to work: the space must be heated, cleaned, maintained and paid for. That depends on many things, but for purposes of illustration, I have run some estimates for Montréal. The exercise is simple but important, since it brings these costs out of the realm of speculation into the realm of meaningful discussion.
Rough calculations show that the savings made by employers when their staff works from home are of similar value to the compensation workers should receive for setting up offices at home.
What does this mean for offices in cities? One of two things may happen, Employers pass these costs onto employees. This would be a form of expropriation (侵占), with employees absorbing production costs that have traditionally been paid by the employer. This represents a considerable transfer of value from employees to employers.
When employees are properly compensated, employers' real estate savings will be modest. If savings are modest, then the many advantages of working in offices such as lively atmosphere, rapidity of communication, team-building and acclimatization (适应环境) of new employees--will encourage employers to shelve the idea of remote work and, like Yahoo in 2013, encourage employees to work most of the time from corporate office space.
【翻译】
随着许多上班族适应远程办公，如果办公室仍未得到充分利用，城市可能会发生根本性变化。如果在家工作成为常态，谁将受益?
雇主们说，当员工从办公室搬到家里工作时，他们在房地产上节省了相当多的开支。然而，这些节省来自于将成本转嫁给工人
除非员工得到全额补偿，否则这可能成为寄生资本主义的一种变体，即企业利润越来越依赖于从公共领域（现在是个人领域）提取价值，而不是创造新价值。
尽管雇主们得到了远程工作倡导者的一致支持，但也有人指出，长时间远程工作会带来孤独感、造成生产力下降和效率低下。
如果在家办公成为常态，员工将不得不腾出一部分私人空间用于工作。这就需要购买桌椅和办公设备。
这也意味着有专门用于工作的私人空间：空间必须温暖、整洁、得到维护并且花钱。这取决于很多因素，但为了说明，我对Montréal进行了一些估算。这个实验很简单，但很重要，因为它把这些成本从推测的领域带到了有意义的讨论领域。
粗略计算显示，雇主在员工在家办公时节省的开支，与员工在家办公时应获得的补偿价值相当。
这对城市办公室意味着什么?可能会发生两种情况之一：雇主将这些成本转嫁给员工。这将是一种征用形式，雇员将承担传统上由雇主支付的生产成本。这意味着相当大的价值从雇员转移到雇主。
当员工得到适当的补偿时，雇主节省的房地产成本将是有限的。如果省下的钱不多，那么在办公室工作的诸多优势，如活泼的氛围、快速的沟通、团队建设和新员工的适应能力，将促使雇主搁置远程工作的想法，并像2013年雅虎（Yahoo）那样，鼓励员工大部分时间在公司办公室工作。

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