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I 'm surveying people from zoom calls to figure out the trend. So far, here in europe, it seems that people who live in small apartments (e.g. Berlin) prefer to

I 'm surveying people from zoom calls to figure out the trend. So far, here in europe, it seems that people who live in small apartments (e.g. Berlin) prefer to go back to the office. People who have larger houses, or access to outdoors have stayed home even if they could go to the office. If enough people stay back home after covid, remote work will be a self-accelerating trend: if enough people are not at the office , the office is boring and empty, and home becomes more fun.

ghaff 6y ago
>remote work will be a self-accelerating trend I've been (unofficially) mostly remote--to greater or lesser degrees depending on what I'm working on--for quite a few years now. And you make a good point. I have a relatively convenient local office. But most of the people I work with regularly aren't in that office, mostly work from home themselves, are on calls all day, or are traveling. I can go into the office and there's a good chance I basically won't see anyone I know. (The company has also grown a lot.) If I could go in a day or two a week and bump into a lot of people I know/maybe have lunch with them/etc. I'd be perfectly happy to go in a day or two a week. But the reality is that I'd go in, grab a random desk, work and head back home. I can do that in my home office without a 1 hour roundtrip commute. And layer on top of that, going into the office is going to be a weird and awkward situation for an extended period of time. I certainly don't expect to be in an office even for a meeting for the rest of this year and very possibly an extended period of time beyond that.