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Full remote work won’t last long. To those long employed with a company, it’s a wonderful benefit. You’ve proven yourself capable and coworkers and bosses know you well and and respect you based on all those years prior to the pandemic and still getting work done during it. To those coming in, it’s more challenging to adapt the workplace. Harder to ask questions and resolve complex situations. Ultimately there will be shift back to hybrid. I believe these companies may prove themselves more capable.

It’s the same psychology how people behave online. No one solves problems easily on Facebook. Same thing applied to the workplace. A new hire sending you 5 emails in an hour how to do something a certain way gets annoying. A brief conversation of the same content at the office is a lot easier.

I think this boom of workplace productivity software is trying to resolve remote work deficiencies, but it’s more of a crutch.

Then there’s the social aspect. I credit my first job in the city with building my social life starting out. Having many coworkers of the same age and we’d go to bulls games, happy hours or even just get lunch. Imagine a college grad with no money starting out at a full remote office. It’s not like you have all the money to live some place extravagant. If it’s an expensive city you’ll get a studio apartment or a coffee shop for the office but that isolation will get old.