@veronica@mastodon.onlineGood piece in Norwegian about the benefits of hybrid work and why what the US is doing now is counterproductive.
The optimum model is hybrid work with planned office days for your team, which is exactly the policy where I work.
I hope auto-translate works for those who don't read Norwegian.
@veronica It is just so sad to see so many, specially middle managers, actively fighting to get everyone back in the office for all days.
"We work better together" is a mantra that is true because "it is". They are even willing to let go of the most skilled workers to achieve this.
This is not just a US issue, it is being reversed a lot in Norway too.
@lettosprey Middle management using circular reasoning in the face of research? No, that never happens. 
@veronica What I find a tad sad is that I have home office not because it is effective and good, but because I am in a privileged group who is in "demand".
I have spoken to people who have jobs where finding workers is a lot easier, but their job can be done more or less anywhere. Even more, they have jobs that can be done off-site without the possibility to have "off time".
Like, if they do not pick up the call they are assigned, it is pretty dang easy to notice. Yet they were forced back into 5 full days at office the moment it was allowed.
The REALLY sad bit is that this pushes disabled people out of a lot of jobs they would be able to do, had it not been for the forced "8 hours at the office" restrictions.
One boss said (to tek24.no) "what about the people that need the social bit of meeting their coworkers every day".
Yes. What about those poor extreme extroverts. This world is DEINITELY not built for them :O
@veronica same. after doing this since 2019, fully remote will be a top demand for any future job I consider.
@bjoernstaerk Yeah, I've been working fully remote for close to three years now. I managed to get a deal with the company I'm hired to. My team/project is distributed between 5 locations anyway.