A big disconnect I see is that some offices and teams are much more pleasant to be around in person. There are companies that feel like prisons -- windowless open office setups with oppressive noise and distractions. There are others with a bunch of cool people who are respectfully quiet when others are working.
It can feel like an "pro-office" person is threatening to consign you to half your waking life in jail if you work in the former.
My hope for the WFH movement is that actual thought is put into office floor plans and setup. Open space offices are hopefully the first casualty of the next few years.
I'm a bit worried that things will accidentally go the other direction: if employees are partially remote it will be hard to justify giving them their own piece of the office. You'll have to lug everything with you every day and won't feel any ownership of anything there. It will feel like working out of a hotel room instead of your own domain.
Even within Apple I am sure there is huge variation in "quality-of-office". It's not like every Apple employee gets to work in the Starship, even in Cupertino. But for those that do, they probably are looking forward to returning.
It can feel like an "pro-office" person is threatening to consign you to half your waking life in jail if you work in the former.
My hope for the WFH movement is that actual thought is put into office floor plans and setup. Open space offices are hopefully the first casualty of the next few years.
I'm a bit worried that things will accidentally go the other direction: if employees are partially remote it will be hard to justify giving them their own piece of the office. You'll have to lug everything with you every day and won't feel any ownership of anything there. It will feel like working out of a hotel room instead of your own domain.