I think this topic splits into segments. Our 2 offices, Austin and Chicago, have been closed for a year. Staff has worked remote 100% the entire year. We were 100% an 8 to 5, Monday to Friday shop pre-Covid. I can easily spend 6 hours a day on Teams in meetings, audio or video, managing staff from home now. We are putting plans in place to dump both office leases. Nobody except the top guy for each office has even been in the buildings the past year. Line level staff that just do their daily tasks/grind love the remote work. None of them voice any desire to return. They all love having zero commute. None of them seem to care about the lack of socialization but it does concern me. Even our call center is 100% work from home now. Those people are never coming back to the office. Waste of money. Creatives want a collaboration space. Our Marketing department. Our high level software engineers/architects. They want to do the bulk of their work remotely, but they want a whiteboard and conference room for collaboration sessions. So we will be looking for office footprints that are 25% of what we currently have. We have hired new staff during the last year. Integrating with the new team members takes a different approach. The people in our offices are not friends. They are coworkers. Our under 30 crowd would grab drinks after work...but anybody with kids...they stopped that so missing out on drinks after work...I don’t miss it. I plan to do work lunches before/after in person collaboration sessions. Flex schedules seem like they just suck. Never know where anybody is on any given day. At least now...with everyone remote...I know I can get anybody on Teams in a reasonable timeframe. I will never return to a full office schedule with my current company.