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My last 3 managers (since 2020) have all been in a different office than my "home" office.

• FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  That's only if you work at big companies with several offices where teams are distributed anyway, so in-office work was remote-work anyway except done in the office instead of in your home. Big international companies were already basically remote even before the pandemic and had plenty of inefficiencies already built in. What I notices small companies in my area (here in Europe) with only one office, put a lot of value in having all employees coming to the office so they can react faster and cooperate easier than distributed teams, rather than saving on rent and letting everyone WFH 100% of the time from wherever they are, seeing it as one of their strengths over big distributed companies where things move slower. While there's some truth to their arguments about the response time and cooperation in the office, I find they're selecting for people who drink their cool-aid and buy into "the mission" of the company instead of seeing the work as a simple transaction of "I give you my time and mental labor, you give me money, period".