[treespace8]

I just don't understand these articles. The office isn't going anywhere. Don't worry, if you want to work in an office that option is not going away.

Working in the same physical space as management will aways have an edge on remote workers. That's why it won't be going anywhere.

I can only speak for myself, but I feel that for many of us this is a once in a lifetime chance to establish working for home as a completely viable, respected choice. I don't want to move up, I just want to do my job in peace.

[yoz-y]

Some people may genuinely fear that is going away since there is a lot of talk about hot-desking at the very least. Not having to pay for offices also has its advantages.

Finally it adds to signal, without pro-office articles one would think that everybody hates working from the office.

[ghaff]

That's really the main thing. To the degree that coming into offices half-time becomes normed, it's reasonable to expect that companies will shift towards more flexible desk arrangements as leases come up or space otherwise gets tight. I've even seen this pre-pandemic when people weren't using their cubes a lot.

[MattGaiser]

I think the problem is most people think they work for a company rather than an industry. Some companies have gone fully remote, so if the office is your thing, you will need to leave that company.

To me that isn't a big deal, but a lot of people are reluctant to switch jobs.

[ghaff]

>if you want to work in an office that option is not going away

Probably not universally, but in general.

Though they may have to deal with a lot of their co-workers not being present, the norm for meetings being Zoom rather than conference rooms, and hoteling.