Totally agree. I feel like the ideal balance would be 2x/month office visits to coordinate/meet/socialize. And WFH the rest of the time. But, at the same time, I don’t want to limit my hiring to the local market (and 4/6 of my team are fully remote), so WFH/remote it is. Really, I just miss social lunches and a bit of water-cooler gossip. I should try to convince my two local employees to meet for a snack sometime and call it good enough.

Edit - I don’t remotely miss the open office at my employer. Worst idea ever. Directors and VPs hog the conference rooms, leaving me (line manager) to roam around looking for private spaces to talk to employees. Dumb dumb dumb. End rant.