What's fascinating to me is how much everyone seems to have accepted the "per week" framing, which puts an implicit 20% lower bound on the ratio. In-office may

What's fascinating to me is how much everyone seems to have accepted the "per week" framing, which puts an implicit 20% lower bound on the ratio. In-office may be useful for some things, but I see very little thought given to how little of those things you actually need, what the optimum frequency is (rather than the overall amount), how clumping days in a row might affect things, or how those in-office days should be coordinated between teams. My hunch is that team-building and the more social aspects need far less than justifies anything like once a week; and collaboration is always best done at point of need, not to a schedule, in my experience. That need might be week-long! That can happen! But to assume everyone's best served by some arbitrary ratio is patently absurd; so much so that I find it hard to take arguments for it in good faith. I will acknowledge that new starters and juniors do need hand-holding, and in most companies that's hard to substitute out. The mechanisms for doing that face to face are well established. But I don't think that's impossible to migrate to a mostly remote experience.