There is room for you in the no-RTO future. The big company I work for still has offices, those offices still have cubes. If you want to go in every day, it's o

There is room for you in the no-RTO future. The big company I work for still has offices, those offices still have cubes. If you want to go in every day, it's open and you can. There are places to video conference, we still have a cafeteria, and if you want to feel like it's 2019, go for it. The point is, requiring everyone to feel that way is bullshit. This bell can't be unrung, and the successful places are the ones who can cater to both, which is good because it's not mutually exclusive. The term "return to office," just like the term "remote" are biased towards desire. Workplace independence is what those of us who don't want to go back in are looking for, and there's room enough for everyone. You can go in, I can stay home, we can work together. The last bit matters, though, because you going in have to be accepting of those of us who don't want to. Yeah, you're gonna sit on Zoom calls still from the comfort of your cube, but at least at my company, we were doing that on Skype before anyway, we just all forgot. Any office with more than one building, or any company with a tolerant work from home policy, had at least one person not come in at a time, so voice calls were a requirement. It was never not that way, and it won't go back to the time before that when absence meant missing things. Make If you want to go back and make us all go with you, now we have a problem. But please, go in to the office! Enjoy it, it's a nice place to be. Just not the only place.