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Re:Hybrid work is doomed by zmmmmm on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:14AM (#32055100)
Well I thought it was going to make a more nuanced point which I semi agree with. I do think "hybrid" work is very challenging because it's half-half - an unstable tipping point. What is the point in half the people being in the office if the other half aren't? You still all end up on video calls and interacting remotely / electronically etc.

So I sort of agree but I think its going to tip the other way: companies will try to do hybrid and it will prove to be hard, annoying, expensive and generally a waste of time so it will tip back the other way to full WFH - possibly with some sort of "satellite office" or "shared office" model which is more distributed and flexible so that when people really want to meet up they have somewhere to go.

Re:Hybrid work is doomed by roca on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:34AM (#32055297)
To a large extent this is what happened at Mozilla pre-pandemic. It was always a remote-heavy group because of its open-source roots, and over time office attendance just eroded away in many locations. I expect this to happen at a wide range of companies as they try to do this "hybrid work" thing.