Count me in to this bucket. I’ve had to work remotely for most of my 12-year software career, and I just find it frustrating and unproductive compared to being

Count me in to this bucket. I’ve had to work remotely for most of my 12-year software career, and I just find it frustrating and unproductive compared to being in the same room with my team. I finally got an in person job a few years before the pandemic and loved it, highlight of my career. But now the company is all remote and the entire industry with it. I really dislike it. (Before you flame me, I am very fortunate and have an A+ detached home office setup; I also have done the co-work thing to try and replicate the social aspect of things, and it’s not the same.) I wish there was a way for remote to be a personal preference and for everyone to get their preference, but unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. If the team is strict about in office then nobody who prefers remote gets their preference. But once anyone is remote then everyone is dealing with remote, and more of the team will have reasons why they want to go remote too… and very quickly it’s 30-50% of the team. Then in practice you have to be full remote and Async or it all falls apart, so even if half or more of the team preferred in-person, they don’t get it.