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From my personal experience and that of my friends in SV, hybrid with everyone in office for 2-3 same days, is the best experience. I don't have to commute ever

From my personal experience and that of my friends in SV, hybrid with everyone in office for 2-3 same days, is the best experience. I don't have to commute every day. My team can do focused uninterrupted work on their WFH days. We can have team discussions, deep dives or 1:1's on RTO days which are far more conducive for the interpersonal communication.

ghaff 3y ago
In my experience, going into a downtown office for customer visits every now and then, dropping down to a couple days a week really does open up commuting options. The approximately 2 hour door-to-door time wouldn't be sustainable on a daily basis but really isn't that bad for a couple days a week. I'm remote anyway and everyone I work regularly with is in a different city but if everyone/most people were local I really wouldn't mind having scheduled team days.
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smsm42 3y ago
As a remote worker, given the choice I'd probably choose to go to the office 1-2 days a week and work remotely for the rest (I worked like that before and it was fine). Occasionally, being in the same room is very helpful. It's not worth firing someone who is physically so remote they can't go to the office, but with all possibilities open, my experience shows the hybrid model is the most efficient overall. In reality, the possibilities are not always open, so one has to find the model that works best for the particular team.
- illegalsmile 3y ago
  > In reality, the possibilities are not always open, so one has to find the model that works best for the particular team. This is what's up. My team is distributed across all continental US time zones and as such many of us don't share a central office. I have one person on my team of 11 that I share an office with and we barely share any projects. They ask us to come into the office once a week but what's the point? They do nothing to encourage teamwork. Gone are the days where we'd have company wide lunches that promoted conversation, unity and employee cohesiveness. Now they offer us food trucks once a week? Not company paid for of course but rather the employees footing an over priced mediocre meal in the name of convenience. I really don't know what management is thinking. End of the day, the people that want to be in the office are in the office and those that want to wfh are wfh. Companies need to shift expectations and priorities at this point because while they can push for office, and that's fine, the culture has changed dramatically. I offered my employer numerous tactics to promote teamwork and cross-team engagement and they're doing none of it. In-office isn't working and they're doing nothing to fix it but rather trying to force it to work.

ghaff 3y ago

In my experience, going into a downtown office for customer visits every now and then, dropping down to a couple days a week really does open up commuting options. The approximately 2 hour door-to-door time wouldn't be sustainable on a daily basis but really isn't that bad for a couple days a week. I'm remote anyway and everyone I work regularly with is in a different city but if everyone/most people were local I really wouldn't mind having scheduled team days.

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smsm42 3y ago

As a remote worker, given the choice I'd probably choose to go to the office 1-2 days a week and work remotely for the rest (I worked like that before and it was fine). Occasionally, being in the same room is very helpful. It's not worth firing someone who is physically so remote they can't go to the office, but with all possibilities open, my experience shows the hybrid model is the most efficient overall. In reality, the possibilities are not always open, so one has to find the model that works best for the particular team.

illegalsmile 3y ago
> In reality, the possibilities are not always open, so one has to find the model that works best for the particular team. This is what's up. My team is distributed across all continental US time zones and as such many of us don't share a central office. I have one person on my team of 11 that I share an office with and we barely share any projects. They ask us to come into the office once a week but what's the point? They do nothing to encourage teamwork. Gone are the days where we'd have company wide lunches that promoted conversation, unity and employee cohesiveness. Now they offer us food trucks once a week? Not company paid for of course but rather the employees footing an over priced mediocre meal in the name of convenience. I really don't know what management is thinking. End of the day, the people that want to be in the office are in the office and those that want to wfh are wfh. Companies need to shift expectations and priorities at this point because while they can push for office, and that's fine, the culture has changed dramatically. I offered my employer numerous tactics to promote teamwork and cross-team engagement and they're doing none of it. In-office isn't working and they're doing nothing to fix it but rather trying to force it to work.