Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews
Quick search on this thread didn&#x27;t reveal the word &quot;flame&quot; (as in &quot;flame war&quot;), so I can´t resist: That&#x27;s what the remote vs on-site debate is. About as interesting and ultimately inconclusive as Emacs vs Vi. Neither is universally better. It depends, _primarily_ on the people involved and their preferences. My advice would be to try and work with people that are on the same page about this with you - if possible. If everybody can muster the level of acceptance and respect for their colleagues required to make a hybrid environment work, that&#x27;d also do the trick.<p>What I find fascinating about the remote vs on-site flame war are the _stakes_ though, I don&#x27;t think we see anything like it in dynamic vs static typing and all the others.<p>If remote loses, remote workers have to figure out how to relocate their entire families to a place they don&#x27;t really want to live in, or accept severely limited job opportunities - on top of having to work in an environment they might not be productive or happy in.<p>If on-site loses, people who are fetching large salaries and bought a house in an area with insane real estate prices face a future where their house value shoots lower than the credit they took to buy it (more towards the national average), and where it&#x27;s increasingly difficult for them to prove that they earn that large salary they&#x27;re getting. That&#x27;s on top of working in an environment they might not be productive or happy in.<p>Both sides have a lot to lose if it all goes either one way or another, that&#x27;s unlike any other flame war I can think of. I wonder how much of this is at play at Google. Certainly seems to be escalating if someone feels the need to pull a stunt like that (with the performance reviews).