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Not to mention that this means 2/3 of people prefer to be in the office at least some of the time and 2/3 of people prefer to work at home at least some of the
by pc86 2y ago
Not to mention that this means 2/3 of people prefer to be in the office at least some of the time and 2/3 of people prefer to work at home at least some of the time. So naturally if you're strictly going based off of numbers hybrid makes the most sense, but I've noticed a lot of "I only want to work from my home office and never go anywhere else ever for any reason" folks frame hybrid as "RTO" which it is not.
- maxaf 2y agoWe frame hybrid as RTO because hybrid is usually mandatory rather than flexible, and implies having to live in some wretched metro area close to an office. I want to live someplace where offices do not exist, which means hybrid is a non-starter for me. Mandatory hybrid == RTO, but optional hybrid - a combination of hybrid for those who live near an office and remote for those who don’t - can please both camps without drawing battle lines between them.
- pc86 2y agoIMO hybrid only works when there is a set day to be in the office for everyone. Otherwise you are just going into the office to have zoom/teams meetings with the remote people, and you end up with one of two things: 1. Everyone taking calls from their cubicles 2. Remote people calling in individually, onsite people calling in with 5-10+ people on one screen in a conference room. Both are horrible and fully remote is better than this for basically everything except team-specific stuff (e.g. sales onsite, execs onsite, software remote, that sort of thing). But if you're going off of numbers alone, hybrid makes the most sense and I don't think hybrid makes sense just being an optional free-for-all. Everyone's circumstances are different so you can't come up with a policy that everyone will like.