That's not been my experience with hybrid work at all. The days in the office were always unproductive, as you work on a new desk, need to set up your work sta

That's not been my experience with hybrid work at all. The days in the office were always unproductive, as you work on a new desk, need to set up your work station (which gets even worse with hot desk approach). You also couldn't really count on having all the meetings in person, as someone always had to stay at home for some (probably quite often, bs) reason, so now you have 5 people in office that need to Zoom because 2 stayed at home. After a couple of you realized you won't get much done in the office, you use the time in the office to chat about things, most often not about work. When it's about work, it's in a negative light about silly decisions the company / team has been making, things that annoy you to no end, you can "casually" discuss alternative companies that hire your kind of talent. In person, it's much easier to talk about these things casually. With hybrid work, you also can't hire people that aren't reasonably close to the main office.