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I work at a company which has a beautiful building, I spend the majority of time in the office which is fantastic, the social aspect plus internal networking is very good.

I work from home on average maybe 0.8 days a week, for various reasons, but I get lots of work done and am quite productive from home.

There are some things that you just can't do the same from home. You can be much more agile when working in proximity. Face to face conversations are important and effective. There is a lot of missing out if you work 100% remotely in companies that aren't 100% remote.

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My workplace is 80% remote, but not in the way you might think.

Just about everyone works from home 4 days a week, and comes into the office one day.

It expands the hiring pool by a pretty significant amount, one of our devs is 2 hours away (4 hours round trip, and he still commutes less than his wife does every week), it lets us get a lot of the "face to face" benefits done in one day, and the rest of the time is remote.

We do also have a couple fully remote, and a couple "always in office".

It works out nice though as we tend to remember to include the "always remote" people on our in office day because most of us know how much it sucks getting left out.

IMO this is a great tradeoff and in some ways an ideal work environment!

This seems a great compromise. In my company there is a team that works similarly. They come in one day per week or one week per month.

This actually sounds workable. One other thing that is clear is that a 5-day onsite 40 hour work-week is not productive. IMO a 4-day week split between office and home would be way more productive.

I don't know where you live, but the stress of commuting alone has led me to want to get out of the business. Companies have got to smarten up! There's no earthly reason why dedicated knowledge workers need to be on some cube farm or stupid newsroom office every day. It sucks.

To me, that last bit is an argument for more companies being 100% remote. After all, many open-source projects have been developed by 100% distributed teams.

It's not that fair to compare the work put out by open-source project teams vs. the work put out by a company trying to make a profit. They are two much different goals, the latter of which typically has much more mobile goal posts.

And they have many people that aren't just developers who have far less flexibility in what they can actually accomplish remotely

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