> The place I work allows to work one day a week from home. In my team of six only one person takes advantage of this policy (not I).
For me, the question in that case always is: Why is that?
Often, presenteeism (or put less favourably: butts-in-seats) is used to paper over organisational inefficiencies.
For instance, a common argument against remote work is that meetings, particularly informal ones, so-called water cooler talk, help with solving problems or interfacing between people, teams and departments.
However, I'd argue that - more often than not - the situation that brought about the need to have these meetings in the first place really is to blame: If you need to have a lot of meetings in order to make progress chances are you don't have the appropriate processes and systems in place that help you with making decisions and have to fall back on lengthy in-person discussions for almost every issue that comes up.
> That said, out of 100+ employees almost nobody drives by car to the office. It's public transport or bicycle.
Let me guess: You're located in Amsterdam ;-)
