What is your ideal working arrangment?

Question

As many firms with physical offices begin to implement return to office plans, what is your ideal working arrangement? Several of us have gotten their first experience the past two years as a remote employee. What would your ideal working arrangement be? Are you planning to go back to the office in a hybrid or full-time setting in the future?

muzani · Accepted Answer

Meeting days in an office. Work days at home.
We've had a few work meetups from a cafe lately. Funny enough, it was stuff like "I'll join up to lunch then I have to go home and get work done."
But I hate meetings on Zoom/Meet. It feels like I'm talking to a recording of a person. I can tolerate it for 15 min stand ups, but if we have a few hours of it, I'd rather do it in person. Too bad we've gone on lockdown for so long that most of the team is always in another country.

ssss11 · Answer

Mostly remote, face to face at office once per week.
The problem is my job would be easier face to face with the groups I work with but even if we were in the office we have multiple offices so I’d be on video calls anyway.
Maybe fully remote with a week face to face every quarter would work just as well

ryanchants · Answer

Fully remote. 2 "check-ins" per week. Other than that, let me work whatever I want, as long as I get the work done. Maybe some sort of core hours for coordinating with others(4 hours, Tue-Wed?).That's my ideal.

hnthrowaway0315 · Answer

2-Office/3-Home is fine for me. I don't enjoy working from home but I have a baby so WFH helps a lot. Still, I need two days away from home to keep the burnout checked.

drakonka · Answer

My ideal arrangement is fully remote and mostly async, with maybe a 2-4 hour (remote) overlap in the day.

jstx1 · Answer

Fully in-office where the office is a 15-min walk away from my home.