This entire conversation has been intentionally obfuscated by the corporate entities that stand to benefit from the status quo.
These companies are furious that they have to do anything other than keep people off the unemployment rolls in order to get the labor they want and the loyalty they've come to expect. What we're seeing is the largest act of hypocrisy in corporate history: companies complaining that they can't have unfettered access to loyal, reliable workers who they're then allowed to disregard any time it suits them.
If western employees are high maintenance. The solution is for companies to stop being xenophobic/nationalist and employ people in or from other countries where remote work and visas make it possible.
I spent 35 years at a Fortune 500 company that treated employees quite well and am now retired with a decent pension. Point is: there’s plenty of good companies out there too.