WSJ: Companies Start to Think Remote Work isn’t so great After All

• young employees benefit from being next to senior employees and watching them work
• spontaneous interactions (Steve Jobs engineered Pixar so everyone would cross paths)
• some companies (esp small startup team of 8 at Chef Robotics) are investing doubling their office space so teams can collaborate face-to-face
• even OpenExchange, which specializes in large, online conferencing events, rented a 15 bedroom house in the English countryside so many employees can live and work together.
• Commercial real-estate firms like JLL benefit from widespread return to office work
• “hybrid future” - experimenting with the idea of “core hours” - akin to “office hours” of professors on a university campus

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