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I don't understand why working in an office isn't optional for certain jobs. If you want to go to the office, go in. If you want to work remote, then work remote. Why should either remote, hybrid, or on-site become a top-down policy imposed on all employees?

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Having a team split between remote and on site isn't a great situation for anyone. A team that is entirely remote can adapt to remote, asynchronous ways of working. A team that is entirely on site just needs to do what they've always done. Collaborating effectively in a team that is split between the two is very difficult, because the communication methods that are natural to one half of the team are foreign to the other half. Remote employees in particular tend to get isolated from the rest of the team.

If your company has enough employees that are interchangeable enough to organize teams based on the work preferences of the employees, you could probably make it work. But most companies don't have employees that are that interchangeable.

If people are having a hard time with zoom still after the past three years then I don’t know what to say.

> Collaborating effectively in a team that is split between the two is very difficult.

I'm on a split team, it's the same as remote except you can send DMs and create groups chats with some of the team IRL and you have multiplayer rooms join video calls.

I use teams and jira.

daily status meeting over teams. jira for tasks. teams for chat if I have questions.

Remote workers: I don't mind if you are in the office, I'm happy working remotely.

Office workers: I want to work in the office AND I want you to work in the office as well.

Because "Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High", That means property owners aren't making money. Workers aren't out spending to come in, stay and leave. All that is taxable, which is why government officials want people back in the office. In every city, the downtown core's tax revenue subsidizes the suburban sprawl all around it. Good overview of the research on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

That’s an interesting way to phrase cities being subsidized by taxes paid by/on the behalf of suburban commuters.

Suburbs would die without cities!

Also the cities are dying because the suburbians aren't commuting in!

Maybe it's not as simple as people want to make it out to be, and cities are more dependent on suburbs that simple YouTube videos want to admit.

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