[malfist]

I wonder if that equation balance would change if we all took a leaf from Joel Spolsky and gave everyone a private office in the office?

To me it wouldn't, I live in the middle of no where near my family, I couldn't work for big tech and stay here. But I bet it'd shift a lot of opinions.

[ghaff]

It would probably make some difference at the margins. But I'd be willing to bet that, for the majority of people who don't want to go into an office or at least go in frequently, the driving factor is probably a commute. I'm pretty much fully remote but, if I would walk 15 minutes to our downtown office rather than drive >30 minutes to our suburban office, I would probably drop in semi-regularly for the change in scenery.

[JohnFen]

> gave everyone a private office in the office?

That would eliminate about 75% of what I hate about working in an office. Cubes are hell. The only hell worse than that is an open office layout.

[malfist]

Hell, given the way things were going prepandemic, cubes would be an improvement on most offices