Carta’s Return to Office Plan. Over the Last Year We Have Been… by Henry Ward Jul, 2021 Medium⁠↗

We will also work fully remotely two days a week, 3 weeks a year, and for the month of July, to keep our remote muscle working.

That’s why we run out of conference rooms — everybody is coming to the office to jump in conference rooms to zoom other people who came to an office to jump in a conference room to zoom them.

Going to fully remote is a one-way door. If we allow employees to move, and recruiters to recruit from, anywhere, entropy will take over. We will lose the ability to cluster back into offices. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. But it does mean we must be prepared to permanently give up all the things we loved about having offices.

Change is hard and once routines are in place, nobody likes changing them. But will we regret sitting out the Great Re-Emergence because we got used to staying home? If we don’t like going back to the office we can always change our mind in six months and close the offices. But will we regret not joining the rest of humanity in ending the pandemic? Should the lesson from 18 months of sheltering in our homes be that we should stay in them?