End up being essentially just mercenaries. There is nothing they are bought into from a culture perspective. My company has experienced this specifically because there is no tie to the company other than you pay me to do this work. It’s hard to form any meaningful relationships with team members even doing once a quarter or once a month “team building exercises” when everyone works remote.

We’ve stuck with a hybrid setup with bringing staff in about 15% of the month, unless it is staff that are not hitting their production/quality metrics on the work that they do. I’ve found that is the sweet spot to keep employees invested in what the company is trying to do while also allowing employees to not have to travel into the office too much. It also allows us to keep our infrastructure costs lower, and we’ve more than doubled since 2020 while keeping infrastructure costs having only increased about 35%. We also are a company that is more than capable of tracking productivity and what employees are doing throughout the day.