No software company should force it's employees to come offices.
Employees are more productive when they work from where they likemost
Employees are more productive when they work from where they likemost
FWIW, I've worked from home since 2020 for a company that is remote friendly. We've had employees that want to work from home but they don't do very much work when they do. Doesn't go for everyone but it's my anecdotal experience.
In discussions about WFH/RTO, people are usually split into two groups: the ones who work well unsupervised and those who want to slack off. There's the third group - the ones that want to work but are unable to do it due to chronic procrastination issues (which are often caused by ADD/ADHD ).
One thing about WFH is that it exposes such employees. In office, it's easy to look busy and blend in. In fact, you just realized this only now and not when they were in office tells all about it.
I also think ADHD is significantly more prevalent among software engineers (mostly inattentive type) in my experience. My random guess would be close to 25 percent:)
Examples (non exhaustive list in no particular order) that came to mind: AirBnB, Allstate Insurance (divested from their Chicago headquarters), Automattic, Dropbox, GitHub, Gitlab, Hashicorp, PagerDuty, Zapier
How much work someone accomplishes is a function of effective management and objective measurement, not where they sit. If you have to sit over someone’s shoulder for the work to get done, you’ve already failed. Your hiring system is optimizing for autonomous folks who can operate in unstructured work ideally. People who don’t want to work can do that equally well from both home or the office.
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(remote for a decade as both IC and leadership of team of ~10, including a tenure at a fully remote org)