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I think any successful organization needs a balance of the two. YOU may get more done working at home on your individual tasks, but a company can't have everyone working in a bubble.

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100% agree, and that's why I think hybrid schedules are here to stay. Come in to the office 2-3 days a week, and WFH the others. But as I stated above, if you're going to have people in the office, then effing act like it and stop the Teams/Skype/Zoom meetings. Book a conference room, walk your butt to it, and dial in whoever is at a different location that needs to be on there. Every conference room at my company has flat screen TVs with cameras. Use them.

Did I get a pay increase when I was called back in?

Because I considered the change in policy to more work at home an added benefit in lieu of other compensation like higher pay, this enticing me to stay at that job and not ask for a bigger raise, for example.

Now that that benefit is withdrawn, I see it as a benefit cut. It was never a "gift." Rather it was a practical necessity but ALSO factored into the cost/benefit exchange between the employer and employee for as long as it continued. Changing that work condition does factor into the compensation equation for the employee, and should. They'll either decide to live with it or they won't.

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I think any successful organization needs a balance of the two. YOU may get more done working at home on your individual tasks, but a company can't have everyone working in a bubble.

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100% agree, and that's why I think hybrid schedules are here to stay. Come in to the office 2-3 days a week, and WFH the others. But as I stated above, if you're going to have people in the office, then effing act like it and stop the Teams/Skype/Zoom meetings. Book a conference room, walk your butt to it, and dial in whoever is at a different location that needs to be on there. Every conference room at my company has flat screen TVs with cameras. Use them.

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I only did WFH for the first few weeks of the pandemic, but I can only think of a couple of instances where I've had an old-fashioned sit-down meeting with other people in a conference room since then. They schedule so many meetings now that I simply must link in via Teams so I can keep going with my design work.

There's that team player attitude again. I only really pay attention for meetings on my direct projects. It gets really bad when people decide to ask me something out of the blue. Wait, what? What was the question again?

I personally could not be trusted to work from home. I would barely work. That's why I will never work from home. I know there are some people who can do a good job of it but my guess is that's only about 25% of people.

Shortest was 100 miles, longest was 600

I'm not sure why everyone is convinced that it's such a bad thing to love kids, doesn't make sense to me.

You missed my entire point. If you live and work in The Woodlands, but get a new job in Cypress, you're not going to uproot your family and move to Cypress so you have a shorter commute. You'll make the commute, especially if you have kids in school/sports and a spouse with a job. What you're taking about is getting a new job in an entirely different town. It is not the same.

I have received 2 substantial raises in 3 years for staying in the office during Covid. I hate being home working. No dogs or distractions.

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Who is still in an office with closed cafeterias, gyms and plexiglass everywhere?

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Nobody, but I'm saying that corps made it as difficult to work in an office as possible and got people use to working from home.