>From talking to friends, I feel this is a very controversial opinion to have and I don't really get why. For a lot of people, certainly in my case, the benefi

>From talking to friends, I feel this is a very controversial opinion to have and I don't really get why. For a lot of people, certainly in my case, the benefits of remote far outweigh the benefits of in person. At least in the US public transportation is either nonexistent or so bad it's not even worth using which means we have long commutes. Hours a day in some cases so moving to remote work immediately frees up dozens of hours of free time per month. Lots of folks in IT have ASD or something close to it and noisy chaotic offices make it impossible to do focused work. In any case there are certainly plenty of Companies that are back to fully in person so why not just work for one of those? No one is forcing you to stay remote if you don't want it.