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, employer’s 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.

解析：A。根据题干中the author’s opinion和题文同序原则可定位至原文最后一段。该段主要是讲，远程办公如果补偿雇员，雇主利润就不会太多了。这种情况下，在办公室工作的许多优势就会凸显出来。最后一句中提到应该像2013年的雅虎一样，鼓励员工大部分时间在公司办公空间工作（encourage employees to work most of the time from corporate office space）。由此可推断出，作者的态度是鼓励在办公室工作，也就是避免在家工作，A项与此内容相符，故为正确答案。

错项排除：B项的temporary在原文中无依据，故排除。文章中提到在家办公会为雇主降低成本的事实，但后来作者又指出这是一种侵占行为，故C项排除。D项的employees’ corporate loyalty在文章中无依据，故排除。