> WFH people don’t have a reason to insist that their colleagues WFH To insist? No. However, I think there's a reason to prefer that their colleagues WFH. Bein

> WFH people don’t have a reason to insist that their colleagues WFH To insist? No. However, I think there's a reason to prefer that their colleagues WFH. Being the only WFH in a group that's otherwise all in the office together suuuuuuuucks, or at least it did in the several pre-pandemic years that I lived it. What I remember is constantly being informed of decisions that "we" had reached while I wasn't present, of every meeting being full of cross-chatter and lunch-eating so I couldn't hear, of not being able to see (let alone approach) the whiteboard, of being interrupted or cut off more than anyone else because of the latency, and so on. Most of this abated somewhat when the pandemic came along and everyone was remote, though the "hallway conversations" remained exclusive even when they were online. That might have been fixable with enough support from managers and other allies, but only if everyone had remained remote. "All remote" and "only remote" are very different experiences. > There’s a very “my freedoms trump your freedoms” mindset to this. Your pun is noted, and I think apropos because this does show up in politics too. The attitude that "freedom" exists only within a certain social structure with oneself at its apex, and that others' (well justified) rejection of that structure is an abridgement of one's own freedom, is unfortunately rather common.