> As soon as one person goes remote, the in-person experience is significantly degraded for everyone else.
Does the office fall apart when someone goes on vacation or is sick? If not, why then would one or two days away from the office have such a big impact?
If someone is sick or on PTO some things are assigned to another person and some things just wait for them to get back. And yes if the whole team has, for example, Mondays and Fridays remote, then some things just wait for Tuesday -> Thursday to happen.
The degradation I'm referencing is if you have one or more people permanently remote on your team. Then, just picking a few trivial examples, you can't take a notepad with you and make a team decision over lunch, or huddle around a whiteboard, etc., because those things don't work for the remote teammate. Even when you're in a conference room with a good video setup, it's still very common to have a lot of repeating things for the remote person, or having the remote person struggle to chime in etc., that make it a worse experience for both sides compared to the lowest common denominator of "everyone is on Zoom."
Does the office fall apart when someone goes on vacation or is sick? If not, why then would one or two days away from the office have such a big impact?