The fact that this is downvoted so heavily shows how this sub is just turning into antiwork bullshit. I'm all for remote work and work for a company that is 100% remote. But with their savings of terminating the office lease they provide a budget for some shared coworking spaces for us to use, and I go in a few times a month. The last time I went in I had a conversation with someone from a completely other team and we hammered out a solution in an afternoon to a problem another team had been working on for weeks with no success. I'd have no reason to speak to this person other than they were next to me in the shared coworking space and the combination of their knowledge of the problem and my knowledge of some specialized data they didn't know existed caused us to be able to solve a problem that will likely save the company 6-7 figures/year.

Like yes as an employee I value being able to take breaks in my apartment rather than office, I value being able to do laundry while working, I value no commute time, etc. But everyone here seems to be under the impression that there is absolutely 0 value to being in the same office with other people you work with, and that's just plain false. I think going forward remote work will continue to be a thing, but I also think there will start to be a pay gap between remote and in-office work and the natural market will allow workers to decide which they want, do they want to be 100% remote? Or do they want to be hybrid or full-time in office and make more since they don't have to be competing with as many people from as many geographies and probably can at least be marginally more productive than the average 100% wfh employee?