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> Or you are in the subset of people that prefer working in-office. They aren't nonexistent, although that's frequently assumed on this site.

And who don't work for an employer who, simultaneous with RTO, is working to make in-office work a shit experience.

Hot-desking* in an open-office space, while you Zoom with your remote teammates based in a different office? WHO WOULDN'T WANT THAT?

* Now euphemized as "hoteling."

I actually like working in-office, but FFS, at least give me a cube with some storage, open desktop space, 3 or 4 walls that are taller than I am when sitting (and preferably when standing) that's in the same building with my team.

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"Hoteling" is an awesome euphemism. Give me a desk that's depressingly impersonal, wasn't cleaned very well after its previous occupant left, and is always three degrees too cold. (At least there's free breakfast, right?)

I'd be happy if we had free coffee..

You're not supposed to eat the free breakfast, it was supposed to be somebody's lunch but got left out overnight...

No. That got cut as well.

> * Now euphemized as "hoteling."

Just FYI, I was a consultant for Deloitte in the early 2000's in Boston and they called it that even then, because consultants frequently travel and were out of the office anyway, so the incentive of paying for less under-utilized office space was already there.

And, heh, if you didn't reserve a desk in time then you basically got stuck in the hallway on a "floater" terminal with a lot of foot-traffic behind you

Or at least give these 3 or 4 walls to these guys who are constantly on the phone or video calls.

> Hot-desking* in an open-office space, while you Zoom with your remote teammates based in a different office?

Yes that's a shitty setup. People I know, who prefer hybrid, prefer that only when the rest of the team is in office as well.

That is exactly the conundrum. Why would a hybrid team be in the office at the same time? Most likely, only if there’s a requirement to be there at that time. So hybrid doesn’t really work either.

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