I don't think the professional
Team Building industry will be facing any meaningful threat from former mobile DJs.
I also don't think working remotely will remain for anything but the scheduling and software sectors. The cost reductions come with a lagging but inevitable decline in the rate of productivity. This remote work trend is patently unhealthy long term and already domestic abuse, violence and divorce rates are skyrocketing. People need engagement with other people in real time and space.
The Capitol riots are not a case of insurrection or extremism - they are the logical reaction of a marginalized population. This notion of "condemning" the incident is no more useful than condemning tomorrow's sunrise. You can use fences, barb-wire, and the military to stem the tide, but the root causes remain and the waters will overtake the walls eventually. The short term gains of the market do not yet reflect the thinning walls of America's hollowed out industries and marginalized workers.
My assumptions about the return to an engaged workplace and social interaction however, presumes we return to a Constitutional Democratic form of governance. (We're kidding ourselves if we think there is an attempt to overthrow the government because the truth is - we already missed it. It happened while we were busy following Twitter feeds and condemning the
hyper-speak du jour.) Those self-righteous calls for whatever it takes to restore peace and order - that's us blindly surrendering to a social plan we're not part of.
There is a huge push right now for some kind of Orwellian society - where the wealthy elite remotely tap society without having to actually care for or maintain any kind of
real social structure. It's the internet age equivalent of the old workhouses and slums - only today, they have suburban street addresses. You don't need you're job back - you can learn to code! We can build high-density affordable housing! The service industry needs you!
There's actually a TED talk where some elite sociologist presents images from dystopian societies in India, Pakistan, and Malaysia - wealthy jewel cities occupied by the elite, fenced off from slums by 10ft high walls of waste and sewage where the supporting worker peasants live in squalor among tightly packed hut style houses. Its presented as highly efficient ideal solutions for a future world population - separating the lower classes to their supporting roles while freeing the productive intellectual elites to the task of advancing human achievement. It's mind boggling to watch this presentation as he essentially glorifies the societal efficiency of what are modern concentration camps.
The capitol is not "hallowed ground" - it's just a building, a monument to a one spell-bounding ideal. Do not let the mere image of an ideal supplant your own ideal of self-determination.
Whatever the future of work will be - it should be your choice, not the directive of perception in an "unprecedented time."
My intuition is that democracy isn't in danger - it's already supplanted, and that we are already at war on a world scale. What we call technology or the space race is actually an arms race. Do you REALLY think the future of mankind is in outer-space where a single moments exposure to high gamma rays will turn you into a rotting pile of flesh from the inside out? Where there is no atmosphere, no water, no warmth, and no refuge across light years of distance? Do you REALLY believe the moon (which we've known since the late 60's is a dead rock) is a stepping stone to our colonization of the galaxy or is it more likely a strategic stronghold from which to oversee and defend a new world order?
Well, it's late - go get a good night's sleep!