Been almost solely a remote software engineer for ~5 years. The last couple of offices I've seen just have terrible equipment. This of course could just be my

Been almost solely a remote software engineer for ~5 years. The last couple of offices I've seen just have terrible equipment. This of course could just be my own anecdotal coincidental experience or just me being picky, but I do wonder if it's actually, at least in part, due to companies just not giving two sh*ts about equipment because fewer and fewer workers are actually going into the office. If that hypothesis is true, then it's a really vicious and rapid positive feedback doom-spiral: worse equipment -> fewer on-site workers -> less motivation for better equipment -> even worse equipment -> even fewer on-site -workers... ...repeat ad nauseam. Also, slightly tin-foil-hat-like (however I bet many will relate), but in the country I'm currently living in (UK), the government sold off all of the transport services to private soulless demons and political cronies, causing a runaway price surge that means a yearly pass for one ~30 minute route is >£5,000 (around $6,000?). So, yeah, each on-site for me equals getting scammed by profiteering demons, having my back eviscerated by the knock-off-of-a-knock-off of a Herman Miller that has foam crushed into a slab of diamond, spending 30 minutes finding a HDMI/whatever cable, and of course losing 1-2 hours of my life to transport there and back. Nah. EDIT: What would make on-site a viable possibility for me would just be: Nicer transport (e.g. >70% chance of seat, instead of 1E-300% chance at the moment), cheaper transport, and better equipment. EDIT2: I forgot biggest on-site downside of them all: bad tea and coffee :P