Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It

Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It by VBprogrammer on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:40PM (#37740687)

I think one thing which wasn't obvious to me early on is that halving the number of office days doesn't half the requirements for desk space. In my experience people have a strong preference for going in on similar days, particularly Tuesday and Thursday. So if you ask all of your employees to come in 2 days a week you end up needing desks for almost every employee.

The result in my experience is you have either fullish remote or you need just as many desks so very little saving from a company point of view.

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Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It by ajmurmann on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:51PM (#37740856)

Also, what's the point of going into the office if nobody else is there? My department had a hybrid model for a bit with a fabulous, newly built-out office. I liked seeing people in person a couple times a week. However, if I go in and nobody from my team is there or we need to still call in to meetings as if we were at home, what's the point?

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Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It by VBprogrammer on Monday October 02, 2023 @03:03PM (#37742867)

Yeah, definitely. The only real value I've had from going in is when we've got some kind of social event planned (over teams / zoom this sucks) and when we've gone in with the specific plan of talking about a how we can implement a new feature which is complex and touches multiple teams (which also sucks to do online).

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