Our company is in the process of moving to a new location for September of this year. Office is moving from the Outskirts of the Twin Cities to Downtown Minneapolis..
Our manager has already let us know that he left his last job because he HATED driving to downtown.
So he sees a majority of WFH.. maybe once a week meetings at the office.
I sure hope he continues to go that way.. It would be a minimum of an hour, probably more each way, for me to drive to the new location.
At this point in my life I have better things to do then spend 2+ hours a day in car to put in my 8 hours.
A Manager that I worked with at this company left about a year ago. He heard of the move, and knows where I live, and already reached out stating "If they tell you that you have to go into the office call me as I'll always have a position open for you".. So I have that going for me ..
Another huge change is they are setting it up to be all "Hotel areas" and "Open concept". Only the ELT's ( CEO, CIO's, etc.) will have assigned offices..
I dislike the open concept and Hotel cubing ideas .. never know who last used the "hotel area" and when I am writing code/Formulas concentration is needed.
With the Open concept, people are always yapping around you..
And I swear people always know just when you need to concentrate the most and decide that is the best time to tell you about their upcoming weekend plans, or what they did last week, or what they had for dinner last night.....