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I have to say, your junior colleague has serious moxie to be willing to put that out there. Doing so would not be well received here. In my eyes, flexibility in 2025 is being able to work remotely from anywhere in the world. If it were up to me, everyone who was able to do their jobs from home would be given the opportunity to. I think the whole RTO push is seriously misguided.
I would love the flexibility to work from home. Even if it was just one day a week, that would be nice. Right now we are full-time in the office and it stinks.
Our hybrid policy is not very flexible or considerate of different types of work and different team structures, so I'd change that. Folks should be allowed to work wherever they work best. Sometimes you need the flexibility, quiet, and heads-down time that working from home affords. Other times, you may need a change of scenery or want to connect with colleagues for personal or professional reasons - those are good days to go in. Some people like the hustle and bustle of the office, others are stressed by it. Some folks have their whole teams onsite, others have to connect with their teams remotely due to their locations. Trying to make every individual human fit into an unyielding policy of when and how we work is short-sighted, archaic, and feels like a "power move", not a people move.
I like the idea of a smaller set of shared online hours (like 10-2) where folks schedule meetings and collaboration, but then allowing individuals to choose their hours outside of that window. Need to pick up kiddos from school at 3? No problem. Just hop back on when you're ready or start earlier in the day. Does your partner work a night shift and you want to be available to connect with them when they get home? Take some hours in the morning and push your work to a later time. There are so many possible scenarios, we cannot account for all of them... But with some reasonable minimum requirements and the gift of trust that folks will do their work, I think people would feel a lot less angst about the many hours of their lives they spend working.