“Too bad the employer wasn’t the one paying the salaries of the employees, then they’d be in a strong position...”
That only really works if no other employers are hiring.
It depends on the industry
Not coming to an office is a perk that doesn’t cost money to offer so, Catch-22 on the one hand.
On the other is you are judge off KPI’s or MBO’s and regulary exceed them, why would you care where your employee is?
In 2008 the average speed for Internet at home was 3 meg.
In 2020 everyone has a better than 80, 500 meg or 1 Gig connection.
You can send and receive some pretty large files on those connections and still have priority and bandwidth for multimedia...