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Most of my team wants to come to the office and is always super happy when they find a reason to do so. "Oh, I have to test this mobile device which only works in the office, can I come in today @ $manager?"

And currently I am at the office together with one other person. Beats being alone at home. At least a few days per week. It's always so fun to be at the office with my coworkers and I am looking forward to them all coming back.

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> Beats being alone at home.

That's because they live alone at home, probably because they moved recently / immigrated / forced to live in bad cities. Post-pandemic, they will be able to move to a place where they are not alone. I think they'll take that option rather than alone at home/only social in the office.

How does moving get me a flatmate?

You move to a shared flat?

The only people who would still want to go back to an office are people who live in a city without friends and family, who would move and live with them, but would not move within the same city and live with new people?

Sounds rather rare. I don't deny it but from just talking to work mates it seems more want to come back.

I think it is age based: younger workers crave the social interaction they get at the office, older workers see a huge advantage in getting more family time (and handling things like taking the kid to school) by working remote. Not universal of course, but I bet there is at least a correlation.

After covid the kids being in Kindergarten / school again. I could imagine the parents want to be at the office some days.

My kid’s daycare was interrupted for just a month. But being WFH has made it super simple to get him to and from daycare, whereas with a 40 minute commute, I wouldn’t be able to do it without getting the kid up fairly early.

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