If the original Lotus Eaters chapter this is referencing is a metaphor for the change to WFH, it seems like this is what happens when people start getting a liiiiiittle too comfortable doing it.
"Online" work, started as optimizing work, ended up turning people into NEET.
Er, if you're working online, you are by definition in employment.
A few days later...Our workplace has gotten pretty roughLook, there's a zashiki-warashi who's not even wearing underwearClick clackTap tapLaze... * From Lotus Eaters chapter 24Remote work for the zashiki-warashi is beginning in the Land of the Back Door