The advantage of the office is that I can go over and talk to people as needed without going through the process of scheduling a call. While I of course do my best to not bother others too often, I can usually glance at someone's desk to get a sense of how "in the zone" they are, and most discussions are mutually beneficial.
Having one other person in the office is great when they are also the one person I need to talk to, and pretty useless otherwise. Having 50% of people are in the office is useful around 50% of the time, and so on.
And then there are meetings. IMO, meetings suck if even one person is remote, because we basically all have to gather around the camera instead of sitting around a table and facing each other like normal human beings. This might be better at big companies that can afford fancy conference room camera setups; I wouldn't know.
Having one other person in the office is great when they are also the one person I need to talk to, and pretty useless otherwise. Having 50% of people are in the office is useful around 50% of the time, and so on.
And then there are meetings. IMO, meetings suck if even one person is remote, because we basically all have to gather around the camera instead of sitting around a table and facing each other like normal human beings. This might be better at big companies that can afford fancy conference room camera setups; I wouldn't know.