Equity in remote versus on-site work

A few places that I have worked had an office layout that varied rather in social connectivity. Some workers might be off in an overflow annex, some might be on some other site, etc., while others share some main room with their group. For example, in my previous job I used to try to fill in a couple of the remote workers with news I had heard in the office. In the job before that, I relocated away from my group to an area with fewer audial and visual distractions, though I had a second chair in my cubicle that I hoped visitors found welcome. With working remotely now, everybody has equal access to each other via online chat, video, etc. I wonder how valuable that equity is. Before the pandemic, apparently we have indeed been somewhat split across rooms and sites, so probably yet will again. I hope nobody ends up placed such that they feel left out.

Moving beyond wired ethernet?

For many years, I used wifi to bring connectivity to islands of wired devices, each island clustered around a switch, one of whose ports was plugged into an access point in client mode. After returning to the US, I had unthinkingly assumed that I would continue with that approach.

However, I now notice that all my devices have wifi capability, from the old Intel NUCs to the new printer. Also, that modern wifi is fast. Maybe I no longer need any of these wired ethernet islands I grew so used to? With having a larger house and yard again, I may well resurrect an older architecture that had me running longer wires under the floor so that access points near the perimeter of the house provide good coverage overall.