[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.