did before Covid.

Spoiler, they don't. They are harder to get in touch with, slower to respond to emails, very poor compared to the in-office personnel when it comes to meeting project deadlines. Every single one of them, even the ones I do think are mostly on the clock. We have co re-communicate with them, they don't know the systems as well and it is harder to show them, etc.

If all of the WFH employees were terminated today, the hiccup would last about a month, and we'd be moving more streamlined than ever after that.

I've done WFH, hybrid, and in office full-time. WFH is great for focusing on your own projects, but the company mechanism is really hampered by it. Especially by the bad WFH employees, but really by all of them in my experience. The WFH employees rarely have a good feel for the pulse of the company, and you expend too many resources trying to get them in sync.