I actually wrote about the remote vs in-office culture a while ago, in my blog article "Remote working and the elephant in the room": https://blog.kronis.dev/ar

I actually wrote about the remote vs in-office culture a while ago, in my blog article "Remote working and the elephant in the room": https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/remote-working-and-the-elephant-in-the-room https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/remote-working-and-the-elep... In short, i do not believe that having an office-centric culture is a bad thing, nor that a remote culture is a bad thing either. It's just that there are people who will always lean towards one or the other and that's where the incompatibilities begin. Personally, i'd want a 100% remote position and doubt that i'll be going back to spending my time commuting just to sit in an office. For others, the opposite applies - they might not be able to wait for being able to properly return to offices soon enough. Each of us might have our own valid (at least subjectively) arguments for pursuing these approaches. Hell, with slightly different life circumstances i might change my opinions (e.g. having kids around the house) or vice versa (wanting to travel more or move and not be bogged down). It is when the guilt tripping and peer pressuring as well as brainwashing starts, with every team/company/culture advocating for their own "normal" as the only proper way to work that the problems start appearing. Everything from virtuous articles in favor of a particular approach or against another, to trying to gaslight or convince those easily swayed to conform to whatever they want. That, in my eyes, is disingenuous and there will definitely be a lot of people looking for different jobs in the coming years, the so called "Great Resignation" (albeit there are also other factors to this, especially in other industries), after it became apparent that people can switch jobs without always relocating, something that's taken advantage of by many. But what's the end result of this? Plenty of people quitting and taking the domain knowledge with themselves, which will make things worse for others in the short term and long term - but that's usually just a case of documentation/knowledge transfer/bus factor being bad. I do hope that the current circumstances allow more people to find jobs that are suitable for them, whatever those jobs may be.