The faster career movement thing is real and I'd a big reason I go in.
No matter how effective learning remotely is, it's much more organic in person.
Not to mention relationship building with superiors is definitely a plus for a number of reasons:
You can learn from them
When promotion time comes around they know they would be able to work with you.
When promoting someone, being able to choose someone you know wouldn't drive you crazy is a huge positive. And most would rather promote someone they work well with than someone who is anti social but is 5% more effective in their metrics.
I go in freely 3 days a week. I'm in a role that is focused on relationship building and collaboration (product management/leadership) and find I do much higher quality work when I'm in the office.
I still have enough solo work to do for the two days i am at home.
Having said that, I'm compensated quite well and enjoy the country driving to the office as it allows me to listen to audio books uninterrupted and decompress after work.
Youd give up ownership of the company and extremely employee focused culture, guaranteed favourable yearly increases, as well as the company paying for you to get personal stuff done professionally in order to stay working from home?
I did my first game jam with the help of chat gpt. It didn't write any code in the game, but I was able to ask it how to accomplish certain things generally and it would give me ideas and it would be up to me to implement.
There were other things I knew my engine could do but i couldn't figure out using the documentation, ao I would ask chat gpt "how do you xyz in godot" and it would give me step by step. This was especially useful for the things that get done in the engine ui and not in code.
This last one was named after a famous battle Droid
(But really the new strains seen are given greco alpha numeric names. There are a bunch of strains that get named that we don't hear about because they Peter out.)
The faster career movement thing is real and I'd a big reason I go in.
No matter how effective learning remotely is, it's much more organic in person.
Not to mention relationship building with superiors is definitely a plus for a number of reasons:
When promoting someone, being able to choose someone you know wouldn't drive you crazy is a huge positive. And most would rather promote someone they work well with than someone who is anti social but is 5% more effective in their metrics.