I prefer RTO and being in the office with the entire team. That doesn't make me crazy, and I know several others on my team feel the same way.
Understand that your current preference is a result of being in an advantageous living accommodation next to the office building your company is leasing.
> Understand that your current preference is a result of being in an advantageous living accommodation next to the office building your company is leasing.
I prefer to go to the beach or the park in my free time, but my preference would certainly change if there was hurricane outside. In that case I'd rather stay indoors.
Obviously my experience would differ if I had a 30+ minute hellish commute. The only teammates that have a commute this long choose to do so as a tradeoff (e.g. more house).
I guess this response and tone surprise me because it seems obvious. There are clearly tradeoffs made when we choose where to live and where we work (including WFH or in-office policy).
We're trying to prevent reverting to that being the mandatory norm for all workers though.
We have folk who prefer to work from the office, and that's fine. But it makes team meetings more challenging than they are when everyone's at home.
When we were only spread across two offices, we'd occasionally have a team day in one or other of the offices. But the third office is much further away.
Between outsourcing, satellite offices and remote employees, almost no team I see nowadays has everyone in the same office.
If the shoe were on the other foot how would you feel if someone forced you to be remote?
What am I missing?
"But you could do that from home": yes, but i wouldn't.