Let me share some recent experience. After 4 years of working remote, I changed to a new company that’s doing hybrid. Didn’t need to move or anything like that

Let me share some recent experience. After 4 years of working remote, I changed to a new company that’s doing hybrid. Didn’t need to move or anything like that. The commute sucks just by virtue of existing. You can’t beat the ease of swapping laptops. But I feel more onboarded into the company after a month of hybrid than I did after maybe 6 months at the old job. Kvetching over lunch is just nice. Getting to hear about the aches and pains of the codebase and various processes without having to schedule a bunch of 1on1s and polluting my calendar with meetings is fantastic. It’s my job to solve these things systemically and just being around to see the painpoints when people drop their guard and don’t feel like their words are recorded forever in a slack channel is freaking amazing. It makes my job so much easier and less forced. The best part is that my day is no longer full of meetings because we can resolve a lot of things informally. And yes I absolutely need the flexibility to work from home when it’s time for heads down focus mode.