Darunion
Supreme [H]ardness
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I tend to think the best approach is the hybrid approach. Two or three days a week in the office, and the rest from home. If gives you the ability to have creative face to face meetings in person, AND go home and focus on more focused tasks. Arranging it right can be a little challenging though. In order for everytone to collaborate in person, you'd have to have everyone is in office days be the same, but if you do, then you can't save as much on office space as the office will either be empty or full and never in between.
I really am a fan of hybrid. For me most of my work is done on a pc drawing schematics and pcb layout and component research. This can be done anywhere. When troubleshooting products or prototyping this kind of work "can" be done in my home workshop but it does just go smoother if i go into the office.
Unfortunately our CEO doesnt really like anything with working from home so we are all in the office, save a few that get hybrid to help with child care (which seems weird because those would be the ones less likely to dedicated 100% work time but anyways). Our 'work culture' is mostly an office with short cubical walls and silence. Most of us eat at our desk so we can keep working. Even our current office space many desks are empty mostly due to having room for growth and some are used for interns which we dont have at the moment.
So the work culture for me is a quiet room listening to the sound of keyboards and mouse clicks (and our loud 3d printer) unless i put on headphones and tune it all out.
As i write this someone comes over with a question and i was able to pull up a schematic real quick and point out the answer, so there are plenty of cases where in person is more efficient. I really just want to be comfy when i work haha