The number of companies that require employees to be in the office full time has actually declined to 42%, from 49% three months ago, Scoop said. Employees at companies with hybrid strategies work an average of 2.5 days a week in the office.

  •  sim_   ( @sim_@beehaw.org ) 
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    I don’t think increased connectedness or creativity in-person are necessarily fanciful ideas. Rather, I’d argue the more important question is if it matters. In some lines of work, maybe so; in others, maybe not.

    •  ted   ( @ted@beehaw.org ) 
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      I agree. It’s never articulated how our work would benefit from it, not to mention that some of our employees are in other cities or countries. We’d ultimately all have to bring out laptops to include them or we simply exclude them for in-person meetings.

      I really love the GitLab Handbook for everything remote. It has largely informed my remote-work methodology.

    • Yeah I work in a position where we mostly just do our own thing. Sometimes we have meetings with my boss to share updates and new things and policies and such. It’s handled fairly well remotely.

      I can understand some people in some more collaborative or creative workplaces needing the in person heads together work space, but I suspect a large percentage of americans dont do that.