[akurtzhs]

YMMV. I prefer hybrid with two days a week in the office.

You can dedicate those days to meetings and conversations and keep the remote days for more heads down work.

And if you can’t make it to the office due to snow or travel, you’re prepared for remote work.

[al_borland]

Doesn’t this only work if everyone you need to have meetings with also has the same plan for 2 meeting days per week?

[nicoburns]

Some hybrid workplaces specify which days you need to attend

[ultrasaurus]

Which means you need office space for 100% of the people, but that's only used 40% of the time.

You can get a little clever with GTM coming in on different days than Eng but it's tradeoffs all the way down. (In a value-neutral way)

[nicoburns]

Well yes, hybrid working isn't generally a way to save office space. It's a way to help workers be more productive and also to give them time to deal with their non-work responsibilities.

[kkfx]

witch actually is untenable: the whole history of human social evolution is toward a more efficient use of resources, not "need more stuff to do things more comfy".

WHF means better home usage, since you both rest, eat, etc and work in the same building, while the company needs no buildings, meaning a far simplified real estate:

- homes

- factories

- special buildings (hospitals, army, politics etc)

- sheds

Instead of the various forms of multi-storey buildings, high-rise, towers and so on alongside their incapacity to evolve, very high construction and operational costs etc just to pack more humans in a tight space.

Similarly for workers being at home means better time usage, no need for commuting, ability to do something at home while working, like run the washing machine, pre-loaded, when the Sun start to allow p.v. self-consumption and so on.

WFH means far better usage of time, space, tools. Witch is a natural evolutionary move.

[SebFender]

Absolument. But these 2 days are close to a lost for me and my team as people start talking about anything and everything for a few hours. I mean it's fun and simple but deep down it's a bit of a lost of time in the end...

[llm_trw]

I think one and a half days is the best.

One of those days is the Friday so you get the half day automatically while being sociable.

[irjustin]

And I think that's a good thing because you want your team to have sociable relationships it helps with the overall synergy and longevity of the team.

[chiefalchemist]

2 of 5 days? Or 2 of 4? If your company went to the 4 day week, would you still prefer 2 days?