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The 2 hours max is so no hotel room is needed. Two hours would be a hellish commute if it were every day, but it’s no big deal only two days a month.

It sort of is with the inevitable team dinner and social activity etc. Although I have a closer office I literally never go into, I do go into our urban office now and then for customer meetings. It's 90 minutes each way, it's barely doable, and if I have 2 days of meetings in a row, especially with a dinner in-between, I book a hotel room if at all possible.

2 hours each way is doable I guess. But I'd probably end up coming in late and passing on any after-5 activities.

So you don't have to fly people in.

I don’t see why a hotel would be a problem, 2 hour range so if someone wants to go back to family they still can.. I personally see no real good coming from trying to make people socialize late at night anyway.