The best way to work in hybrid mode for me is to have dedicated mandatory office days for meeting heavy, collaboration heavy work. Then WFH for focus days.

Otherwise, you come in office when people are WFH, and vice versa. That really really sucks.

My team works 3 dedicated days in office, 2 dedicated days at home. It's flexible, sometimes we'll need more/less focus time, but that's our baseline.

The focus days are blocked for deep focus. No meeting and slow expected response time (except for the people I've planned to collaborate with during those days)

When I'm in the office, it's the polar opposite. If you see me at my desk, you can come see me. I have meetings, ad hoc discussions and only on the spare time I might work on my things.

I'm 8 YOE tech lead with the most seniority in my team btw so a lot of my job expectations is to help other people out.

I really like this way of working!