This makes sense to me, working from home works much better for devs that are already used to the working culture and more importantly will not be afraid and wi

This makes sense to me, working from home works much better for devs that are already used to the working culture and more importantly will not be afraid and will know who to ask and what to ask. For a developer that's just joining a team when you're working remotely it's nothing but silence, so it can be quite daunting to get there and start building rapport with the rest of the team... over what, slack? zoom? meets? Whereas if you are IRL with someone else then it's very easy to just... chat and ask questions and build a working relationship. I think, however, that this seems to be more of a problem with the way we do remote rather than remote itself. I find that a lot of workplaces are struggling to build casual online spaces for their workers, I remember seeing that news about twitter's 100k or so slack channel but... that seemed to me like an indication that the workplace had managed to build a pretty bustling online culture. Of course, everything needs to be done in the right amount. But that's definitely something I think we've not really thought out in much depth. Though there were some experiments (that I thought were ridiculous) of doing these virtual working rooms, and I guess kind of like what Meta itself is trying to push which is the metaverse itself. I think there's probably much easier answers to this problem, but a lot of it might just be changes in the paradigms of how work is that we might not want to accept. For one, you can't have a space for people in a workplace to build good working relationships that will be monitored the same way the "official" spaces will be monitored. You can't have managers, you can't have data persistence that can be used against you. In reality, I find that a lot of people build good relationships with each other when they have something to complain about that's a natural part of the work, people always have things to complain about but you can't just go to the official "off topic" slack channel of the workplace to do it. But at the same time, every workplace likes to think of itself as immaculate so that self critique and giving people space is important. But that's not all, in general, people need to feel like they're not at work and that might be very difficult to achieve if all your off-topic slack channels are right beside your actual work channels. I wonder if having an alternative platform like discord, telegram, whatsapp groups (excluding any managers and bosses and whatnot) might encourage relationship building. But then again, people might not want to use these. I've always been curious about maybe (and this might not be applicable to many places) hiring people in pairs or very close to each other when possible and encourage them to work together (and with a senior dev). Reduce efforts in induction and allow them to get comfortable with someone else from the get go. In any case, I think it's good that people at Meta are doing some kind of research into the topic. Working from home seems to be really good for morale but there needs to be a way of bringing junior developers into it as well.