Chances is that if you used your magic wand, over time you wouldn't be able to find the best employees (as many people are refusing WFO and hybrid) and your team would suffer anyway.

I think a best use of your magic wand would be for you to acquire the skills to manage a highly productive remote team.

You need to resort to insults to make a counterpoint?

Why is this an insult? You are assuming that the problem with your team is WFH and not yourself.

There are hundreds of managers with remote teams that don't need to propose hybrid work as a solution for collaboration problems. Instead of looking at yourself for the solution, you're choosing to send your poor team to the office.

BTW, my highly remote teams are very productive. While some like the office, we never had to resort to mandatory attendance/hybrid to improve our communication.

You assume my issues with full-remote stem from a leadership failure. That's the insult.

I've been making games for 15 years across three companies, two of which ended up full remote. I can judge the effectiveness of a team, and I can say for certain that there are some situations and needs that benefit greatly from in-person. YMMY, especially if you are not in a creative field like games where a team comp is designers, artists, and eng. all mixed in a chaotic pot.

I worked years in game development... Which suffers sometimes from doing things the old way.

This is a what everyone who wants WFH assumes to be true but simple logic itself points that it’s not realistic.

If/As WFH gigs start to become scarce or more the exception to the rule, you will still have top level folks ready willing and able to go work in an office.

And.. gasp maybe some super talented people actually miss connection with other people!

Definitely. I know many exceptionally talented folks that prefer in office with the flexibility to occasionally WFH over full time WFH.