[brigadier132]

I'm very pro remote work as an employee but as someone starting a company here is something I think about:

By making RTO required for my startup, am I introducing a filter that will filter out many employees I wouldn't want anyway?

There are real benefits to working side by side in office, just like for the business and employee there are real benefits to remote work. Hiring is so difficult already, having a filter that will get rid of the applicants not willing to put 100% into the startup seems like a good trade.

Ok, with that said, now is the time I am destroyed by the work life balance mob.

[zer00eyz]

> my startup

This is where your a step out of pace.

> by the work life balance mob

And this is where they are missing the boat.

Pay me enough to live, and save, give me a giant cut (not the meager equity of the last 25 years) and a place to show up to 3-4 days a week.

The whole point of a startup, of putting in that work is that you're making a bet. A bet on the idea, and the team, the team is making that bet too. The table stakes for startups have changed, and you're going to need a much more egalitarian distribution for your first 10-50 hires now if you want to attract talent.

[beoberha]

I love working from home :) But if I was doing the “give 100% to a startup” thing - as an employee or a founder - there’s no way I could stomach being 100% remote. No remote tools can replace having people in the same room working through a problem.