Funnily, studies have shown that people spend more time on chat and less time in face-to-face communication when working from an openspace office than when they

Funnily, studies have shown that people spend more time on chat and less time in face-to-face communication when working from an openspace office than when they work from home. Hopping on a quick 5min zoom is frictionless at home. Walking aaaaalll the way over to someone’s desk and disrupting the entire office with your conversation, or god forbid finding a free conference room, is way harder. So you smear the meeting on slack across a 1 hour back-and-forth pingpong instead of doing a quick 5min sync. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180718-open-offices-make-people-talk-less-and-email-more https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180718-open-offices-m... Private offices solve this problem of course. Wfh is the easiest way to get that.