[winrid]

I was at a place with the exact same problems that was in-office pre-pandemic. It was even worse: you couldn't book time with architects OR product managers. For PMs you had to add your questions to a document and join a sometimes daily 30min meeting and hope they got to your questions.

This isn't an office vs remote problem. It's a hiring not enough people and pretending that doing no planning is okay, problem.

and this was an insurance company. Hardly a "move fast and break things" industry.

[blub]

Not hiring enough people is a chronic problem for all companies. Being remote makes it worse though, since WFH tends to amplify personnel and culture problems…

The only thing WFH solves really is long commutes and noisy offices. It also makes it easier for families to organize their day, which is why a lot of parents like it.

[danw1979]

I think we may be talking about the same insurance company.

[winrid]

haha maybe. do they call their employees hippos? :)