Ontario

It's not people who need encouragement to do so, it's employers. COVID proved how unnecessary most office work actually is, and now they're clawing that back for imaginary made-up reasons. Stop them, we have labor standards regulation for a reason, and they can't gaslight us anymore by pretending there's no other way for them to function.

And for the few companies that actually do need large numbers of in-office workers, start programs to incentivize them to move to smaller communities to become THE major employer for that area or better yet diversify and spread out their workforce and offices into multiple towns instead of centralizing all office jobs in the densest part of a handful of cities, the small "efficiency" gained for the company is not worth the added social and infrastructure costs which are borne largely by taxpayers. They don't even have to move far. Montreal and Toronto are surrounded by dozens of built-up communities with relatively good infrastructure. They just need commitment from employers to move there. Vancouver's geography is a bit more challenging but there is still plenty of room for improvement.

I don't think Mark "Brookfield" Carney is going to save us on this issue, so I imagine it will have to be dealt with by the provinces or put on the backburner for some future federal government to deal with, but my god it is stupid that we let corporations organize themselves this way.