Microsoft's CEO is tired of working from home and he's not alone
There used to be soooo many small interactions that happen throughout the day that right now require way too much formal structure. For example, after lunch as we&#x27;re walking back to our desks we would randomly chat about an idea. These ideas might grow into a bigger group conversation that clarifies things or shifts how one approaches it. Sometimes just sitting next to someone having that conversation is enough, and sometimes I feel like I have something to contribute to it.<p>These are things that can never be replaced with WFH and shouldn&#x27;t need to be. It&#x27;s not a problem right now since we&#x27;re all WFH as we&#x27;re in the middle of this pandemic. Once we return to safer times, some of us will really want to stay WFH, but they&#x27;ll begin to miss out on a lot of these small interactions. People won&#x27;t realize they missed out, and it&#x27;ll never be intentional, but it&#x27;ll happen. At some point it&#x27;ll become a forcing function to bring everyone back into the office.<p>I am definitely pro-WFH a couple days a week, like Tue&#x2F;Thur or Wed&#x2F;Fri. Make those meeting-less days and I can use those to go into deep focus mode. If the whole company does it then we won&#x27;t miss out on any in-office banter.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say there aren&#x27;t roles that work well fully remote if the entire team is fully remote too. Keep in mind those are going to be less-creative projects and much more task based, and if that appeals to you, those will always exist. They existed before the pandemic, and what&#x27;s different now is that these types of teams can now flourish in bigger companies as well.