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this may be a weird opinion to have here but i don't really want to work remotely. i want the option to do it, but i don't really want to do it, if that makes sense. i've been in so many jobs that just had me running up and down the country that i just want to be sat with my colleagues in the same room working on a thing together. i've not gotten the chance to do that since 2020.
That's a VERY popular opinion, one that is hidden by the effort to drag redundant management into a state that even allows remote office work when it's best.
A LOT of people enjoy the environment shift from home to work, and/or use a mass-transit commute as a contemplation opportunity. Many people want to work in an office. And that's okay. The normalization of home-office work won't be done by walking over the people who don't thrive at the home office.
My day job - for instance - bills itself as 'flexible first', which is a generic way of saying "you. Go work where you need, how you need. Be your best." because sometimes that's a boisterous office, and sometimes is a quiet office. Sometimes it's the back yard or the upstairs patio. So they allow for in-office work, and of the 6 desks they still have, 3 of them are continually booked and 3 are open as 'hotel' spots for visitors and irregular attendees. In my mixed-use residential tower they're building out some 'we-work' style rental offices for residents or randos to rent for the day or month, and people who want to be near home but not AT home will have that option.
It's about allowing your best environment to be your best and happiest; and while the message needs to be better, 'work from home office' doesn't exclude in-office people in its actual execution.