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it might be that after a few years in your career the novelty of being in the office wears off and you start to notice the time you lose by being in an office, due to people asking for more “quick chats”, which are disruptive and cause repeated re-starts of the mental processes of understanding code and fixing hard bugs. this lost time then needs to be made up after hours leading to stress and burnout. i personally think the future is completely remote. as a contractor i cannot imagine going into an office everyday dealing with ass in seat mentality. i have written some of my best code in a bar, with a pen and paper.