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100% remote. If a job is not required to be customer facing in person it should be remote. Being in an office all day feels like being a jail for 8-9hrs day. An over exaggeration but not sure how else to describe involuntary and arbitrarily having to stay in a sh!tty little cubicle with bad lighting, loud and distracting co-workers, office gossip/drama, being in close proximity to people with lack of hygiene. Hated spending more time in an office than my home when majority of my income goes to paying for my home. The monetary cost and time cost of commuting in a big city, the stress of commuting. I get 2x as much work done WFH in the same amount of time as I did in the office with all the distractions, pointless meetings. I could probably go on but there are no redeemable qualities to me for working in an office. Last one - mental health improved 100% working from home too. My home makes me happy. An office could never do that.
Pro: building relationships with colleagues
Pro: training sessions that don’t make you want to stab yourself
Pro: teaching juniors and new hires
Pro: developing trust with other departments
Pro: organic learning from others
Con: commute
Con: wearing pants
Con: wearing shoes
Con: no dog
*Pro: no dog
Con: sometimes people want to relationship build while others are trying to be heads down.
Overall - some form of hybrid is needed to build relationships and be human together in order to avoid being miserable transactional drones. That hybrid may be once per week or once per month or once per quarter.
For my remote team members, we do a week (or most of a week) together quarterly. Just did it last week for 4 days. We had training workshops, happy hours, coffee chats, 1:1s and left with some good human connection.
I am also remote, and come in approximately once every other week with an overnight twice per quarter in addition to the team week. My trips are for meeting with other department heads, clients, and most importantly my own team members when they need me.
Note, it doesn’t hurt that this is my view from our staffed coffee bar.