Been WFH since covid full time. But, tbh I really miss the office. And I think the remote lifestyle killed our team at my last place.

We do what we can at my current place, but I still wish we had ways to get together. I've met a couple people that live(d) near me, and one has since moved.

If you have the option, don't be remote fully. At the very least be hybrid with a strict in office policy. You will not miss your at-home time.

As someone who started working remotely in _2012_, I don't agree in the least. Some people aren't cut out to work remotely, just like others aren't cut out to work in an office. Strict policies don't really benefit anyone.

There is also the matter of culture. If you don't intentionally set up a culture of being remote, it can be _really_ hard to implement it later, as COVID taught us. Some of the best teams I've ever worked for and the most productive engineering teams I've worked for were entirely remote.

As an aside, I also don't really "get it". If you work in a large enough org, you're going to eventually end up working with people who are at another site or whatever. You're effectively working with someone remotely in that case too, even if they're "on site" at another location. This is just as remote as a "real" remote job.

> And I think the remote lifestyle killed our team at my last place

This has happened to me as well. I wish there could be a way to find a balance between living in a remote village and working for good money in a tech company with other colleagues in person.

What kills the team is the failure to adapt leadership skills for the office into leadership skills for wfh teams. It’s more work for the leads and “bosses.”

If *you* have the option, don't be remote fully. The rest will judge for ourselves.

> You will not miss your at-home time.

You. I don't miss in-person.