[jypepin]

I totally agree with the impact of spontaneous things happening when in person.

I had been working remotely for 8 years and really was 100% for it and advocating it. I recently joined a new job where I'm at the office 3 days a week, and I can definitely feel the difference both in the time it took me to onboard (compared to other remote-only onboarding I did) and the productivity / relationships / other gains from those days we are all in the office.

Those ad-hoc conversation happening around a desk, a white board, at lunch, do bring a lot of value that you never get while WFH. I can definitely see how some of my previous burn outs may have been prevented if I was not 100% remote.

Of course YMMV, but personally I can definitely see how a company may decide to get back to the office and it's definitely not all black and white where remote is better and omg the mean bosses are getting butts back in seats for more control.

[thenerdhead]

Depends on if your life revolves around work or your work revolves around your life.

[garrickvanburen]

Depends on if the culture supports messaging the right person when it comes to mind or just when it's convenient.

Slack/Teams/email/etc can be spontaneous as well. Just a matter if the culture appreciates and encourages the behavior.

If the CEO is leaving off-sites w/ brand new, strategically significant, ideas that no one was comfortable even hinting at via Slack/Teams/email - yep, seems like a very in-person, face-to-face culture. Seems very brittle in this day and age.

[ghthor]

Easy for management to pat themselves on the back for good ideas but then excuse themselves from a failed execution because there is no log of the ideation ever happening.