What industry?i know what it did for MY productivity personally. I got a LOT more shit done because no office noise to distract you and no one just coming by your desk to interrupt about their stupid problems 10 times a day and no traffic and people pissing me off all day, and less worthless fucking meetings, more in-the-zone coding time.
Ehh. In some businesses there is a valid reason to have people together. Cross talk and communication that is lost while doing it remote. A NOC for example would be something like that and probably some sales teams.the only people who want their remote capable employees to come back to the office are micro-managers who like to look over everyone's shoulders and need people there to feel like they are actually doing something, mostly because they aren't talented and they can't do anything else.
No one said anything about meeting rooms. Take a rocket launch for example where you have a central operating team working together. They are not gonna work from home because something need immediate cross talk without having teams or slack up. If you are talking about things like project work yes you can do that remote. When you are working on complex issues across multiple people then being in person is key. Personally I WANT 1 on 1 meetings that are in person. When you do a video conference that works but if you are in person you get information before/after that is usually beneficial.
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Same situation, my team is mostly regional but we work with people from all across the country, SMEs, subcontractors, etc. I've only had to go into the office maybe a dozen times in the last two years for scheduled all-hands type stuff. Hell it would cost the company more for RTO as they'd have to start expensing flights and hotels and they'd lose people too far to commute.
That's not a kid that's an adult.
