IMO thinking will be useful to some extent because the bottleneck will be getting instructions from the models into people to perform them. So if the model has to spend less time communicating with you (limited by human cognition, not the model), you will be more productive.

All work that can be done remotely can also be done by AI. Currently there are limitations like you having more context from communicating with your colleagues.

I suspect at some point, companies will try to mandate that all work-related communication (even face to face) has to be made accessible to AI. They will no doubt try to go two steps forward and then back off one step as a compromise so it will be a local model in the name of privacy or something like that.

At that point, AI will have the same work-related knowledge you have. In fact it will be able to cross reference knowledge from all workers in the company. So why would you work from home if it can do everything you could but faster and cheaper?