I suspect there will be a great sort between remote-only and office-only, with employees choosing one or the other. Some people really love working from home and some really hate it. Both models can work well, but what works less well is a lot of mixing of the two models within a single organization.
What I'm curious about though is what level this sort might happen at. Maybe it doesn't need to be at the company level. Maybe it can be at the level of an "office" (in abstract terms), which I think is what Stripe seems to be trying to do with their "remote headquarters", or maybe it could be whole product orgs choose one or the other. Or maybe it works at even more granularity, down to the individual team level.
I'm not sure how it will work, but something the pandemic has taught me is that there are a lot of people who love the office, and a lot of people who love being remote. I think figuring out some way to give both kinds of people what they want, somehow, is going to be the way to go.
What I'm curious about though is what level this sort might happen at. Maybe it doesn't need to be at the company level. Maybe it can be at the level of an "office" (in abstract terms), which I think is what Stripe seems to be trying to do with their "remote headquarters", or maybe it could be whole product orgs choose one or the other. Or maybe it works at even more granularity, down to the individual team level.
I'm not sure how it will work, but something the pandemic has taught me is that there are a lot of people who love the office, and a lot of people who love being remote. I think figuring out some way to give both kinds of people what they want, somehow, is going to be the way to go.