The problem seems to be the endless meetings, not work from home.
I choose to go to the office on most days, because I prefer that. Not everyone prefer all remote all the time, and you people need to stop that everyone else is like you.
However, a lot of us prefer remote and do great in that context and see a lot more ups than downs to working from home. That's also fine, but unlike in-office work, there's a barrage of BS studies and PHB managers and executives that are trying to pull every stunt imaginable to get people to come back to the office. Sure, there is some additional synergy (to use a corporate buzz word) that they've lost, but mainly, they want the control back that they had prior to remote where people couldn't switch jobs as easily for higher pay. They're also freaking out about the corporate real estate losses and it isn't my problem that their investment is now worthless. Claims of people not doing anything from home are kind of worthless as it's the same people in both scenarios. Those that are skating by with the minimum workload were doing the same in their cube.
> A couple of zoom calls may suck, but certainly less than commuting to have the same meeting in a stuffy room.
Maybe I read too much into the comment. Maybe it was just meant as a way of saying "I personally prefer remote work + video conferences to in-person meetings". But I feel like there's a narrative that developers actually uniformly prefer remote work, and that the comment reflected that narrative.
Your response[0] was to my comment[1]. If you meant to reply to [2], you should have clicked that reply link instead of replying to my comment. I'm not /u/7thaccount. It's an easy and common mistake most people just acknowledge and move on from.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38416060
I'd agree that there is a distribution and some do enjoy going in. I believe most like having the option where they can choose each day. I prefer fully remote, but occasionally I do wish I could go in for the day to socialize a bit more. To each their own.