Considering the struggle of companies to find qualified people to work for them, even when offering good salaries, it's to me a huge exaggeration to say that going remote will represent a disadvantage for software engineers. I've been a software engineer for 10 years now. If you see the struggle we have sometimes with dumb topics like timezone issues or ridiculous security issues everywhere, you'll understand that software is really far away from eating software.
Also saying that it's easier for the company to get rid of people may somehow be true, but it's easier for people to pivot and find better opportunities as well. To me it will increase job rotation, which in my particular experience has helped me A LOT to improve my skills. This will help improve job conditions as well, companies in search for more stability will have to be even more creative to keep smart people around. They don't seem to have understood this yet unfortunately, good job conditions is not having a ping pong table and a bloody PS4 to play with.
Also saying that it's easier for the company to get rid of people may somehow be true, but it's easier for people to pivot and find better opportunities as well. To me it will increase job rotation, which in my particular experience has helped me A LOT to improve my skills. This will help improve job conditions as well, companies in search for more stability will have to be even more creative to keep smart people around. They don't seem to have understood this yet unfortunately, good job conditions is not having a ping pong table and a bloody PS4 to play with.