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by valleyjo 696 days ago
If you have a geographically centralized team (I.e everyone is in the same city) it makes sense to me to have the team be together at least one day a week. If you’re by yourself in a company office then RTO mandates makes no sense to me.
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lkdfjlkdfjlg 696 days ago
> If you have a geographically centralized team (I.e everyone is in the same city) it makes sense to me to have the team be together at least one day a week

Wanna expand on that? Why does that "make sense"?

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pjc50 696 days ago
In-person collaboration has real benefits for some situations. Team cohesion is not a totally made up thing. So, if it's reasonably cheap, such as everyone in the same city, it's worth getting the team together regularly.

Some distributed organizations strive to bring even international teams together from time to time, even if it's just once a year.

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benterix 696 days ago
The whole point of this discussion is that decisions based on somebody's opinions but applied to everybody give poor results. In this case, if you forced "office Mondays", you would lose several seniors. The question is, is the net result worth it? You can be convinced it is, but without hard data it's meaningless.

(I work for an international corporation and we have hybrid meetings once a year but it never works 100% in person because people work from different continents, it would make no sense.)

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tmottabr 696 days ago
the company that i work for has several people in the same city or close enough that we can go meet at the office, yet i completely disagre with this take.

If collaboration is beneficial in some situation then in office meetings should happen with a situation that would benefit from this collaboration arise. If the need is not there then there is no point.

In my team we go to the office once a month mostly for social interaction, it is usually the day we are lest productive because we basically drink coffee and catch up and even then it is open if you have other personal needs to participate remotely or not at all, we had months were there wasn't anyone in the office and we just meet virtually. I have not gone into the office yet this year myself for a number of reasons.

I still collaborate constantly with my team mates, we have enough tools for remote collaboration that make being physically in the same space irrelevant, this also allow collaboration to extend the team members in other countries so i am not limited to the people that live close by.

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