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People want to work in the office with other people. If they go and end up working alone because their team is remote, then there is no point.

This happened to me once. The team was in NYC, and I wasn’t so I was coming to the office uselessly. I do like coming into the office since it’s easier to turn onto and way from work with travel as a context switch but that aspect made it worthless for anything else.



So people who want to work in the office are entitled to keep their coworkers who dont want to be stuck there?


This is an extraordinary and disingenuous leap, and it doesn't even merit responding to as a proxy for your willingness to engage with others, but to make the superficially obvious point more crystal clear: the existence of folks who prefer the communal and social aspects of work in a common location is not up for debate, and no, their preference on this subject does not imply that they uniformly think everyone should share their preference.

Please take a deep breath and consider the extent to which your unwillingness to even acknowledge the existence of people who don't share your opinion may harm, rather than help, your cause.


Disagree. The comment addresses the sentiment fairly

> People want to work in the office with other people. If they go and end up working alone because their team is remote, then there is no point.

The author would crave for others to be present to satisfy their whim of not only wanting to go to work, but also dragging others reluctantly there. It's worthy of a walkout


Not really. It’s just that you can’t satisfy office workers simply by opening the office doors and walking away.

At the least, you have to reorganize teams so the office staff have other team members who are also in-office and not remote.

If you can’t do that then you are better served with going all remote in my opinion.




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