Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently
Quite a few companies are somewhat reasonable and steering towards a hybrid model where people come in 1-3 days a week.<p>The unexplored outcome of hybrid is that there's no such thing as hybrid.<p>In a hybrid model, you come into the office and find people sitting in chairs with a headphone on. Because they're just as much in calls as they were at home. Because part of the meeting participants on any given day is not there.<p>Hence, this nice physical face-to-face meeting, a supposed benefit of returning to the office, does not materialize.<p>Well, perhaps you'll at least do some ad-hoc brainstorming with your colleague at the coffee machine. Sure, but you need to put the outcome of that in writing...for the people that are not there.<p>Hence, this mode of virtual working cannot be undone. You can't do a "little" virtual working. When you come into the office you largely continue to work as if from home. Perhaps without the sweatpants.<p>For the record, I'm not anti-office. I enjoy the socializing, lunch walks, etc. And in our increasingly touchless home-based society, it's not that bad of a deal to get out of the house for 2 or 3 days a week. Finally, we should empathize with juniors. In my experience, remote mentoring is a piss poor substitute for the real thing.