[Graffur]

I think an hybrid model incentivizes employees to work long hours at the office because 1) they have already made the commute and 2) it's visible to their peers and micro managers. I think those people will then slack off at home to balance their working hours. It will be like working compressed hours unofficially.

[muzani]

When lockdown was on and off, it had the opposite effect. People would slack off more because they were visible at their computers. And they justified slacking off at work because they just spent a couple hours commuting. You can't say that someone who's at their computer all day isn't doing their best, but the results were clearly showing that everyone was getting half as much work done.

Pull requests generally ping the whole team, so during wfh, some of them would do it well into the night to prove that they were working hard. It's probably a bit of politics to show that remote was more productive too.