To adapt a cliche: "It's the commute, stupid." The costs and absolute nonsense of requiring a commute outweigh almost any benefit of daily in-office presence.

To adapt a cliche: "It's the commute, stupid." The costs and absolute nonsense of requiring a commute outweigh almost any benefit of daily in-office presence. A study from decades ago (I wish I could find it again) found that remote work makes good managers' teams perform better and bad managers teams perform worse. It basically correlates to whether the managers focus on results that matter, or on intimidating their workers into doing things that look like work (butts in chairs, not browsing, few breaks, etc.). I'm thinking that the famous Steve Jobs 'insight' about building the offices so that people from different teams would have chance encounters is BS, especially since Apple now reportedly so heavily silos their information. And want to save real estate? Far cheaper to give every employee an unheard-of $4K/yr equipment budget than to pay $66/SqFt/yr office space in SF (excluding utilities, insurance, etc.). Any executive that doesn't get this is just dense, and I'd argue, unsuited for their office.