[avocabros]

Humorous that you're getting downvoted for asking a valid question. It's simple to me - you can emulate remote work in an office by locking yourself in a conf room and never talking to anyone IRL. You can't emulate an office while remote. Working from the office offers more optionality for communication, so there's no downside and only upside vs. remote.

If you simply want to minimize time working, which is an unknown but certainly non-zero amount of employees, it's definitely easier and more fun to do that at home vs. in an office.

There won't be hard evidence for a long time, if ever, on which is better - but the optionality argument makes the decision pretty obvious to me.

[chownie]

You can emulate commute fatigue by standing next to your nearest busy street to absorb the noise pollution for 45 minutes before and after the working day. You can't emulate the lack of commute fatigue while working at the office. So there's no downside and only upside vs. from office.

The optionality argument makes the decision pretty obvious to me.

[pawelduda]

It's like saying you can go to your garage and emulate being a car