For my first full time job, I was a junior sysadmin. My toolset had to include LOAF floppies, one FREEDOS floppy, and a bent paper clip. I had an office. My of

For my first full time job, I was a junior sysadmin. My toolset had to include LOAF floppies, one FREEDOS floppy, and a bent paper clip. I had an office. My office. With a door. Since then, every advance in my career raised my skill level, raised my pay, and shrank my office. First came the open office plan. Then came hot desks. Now I'm all-remote, and I mostly float around libraries and cafes when I'm not zooming. Seriously, it's so demoralizing to be ordered to come to an open office plan where you don't even have a desk you can unload a backpack's worth of things on. (Not happening to me as I'd have to commute on the Acela.) If the powers that be want a return to the office, it's time to rethink what that means.