How do you motivate a return to office program? I am sure we all feel that there is a benefit to being in the office.  All of the reasons you have heard are true.  Collaboration, shared experience, better insight into how your colleagues think and act.  All of these factors expedite the work environment and bring about the benefits that everyone can relate to when we discuss a return to the office.  I propose that these characteristics are the results of working in an office with colleagues over a period of time rather than something that happens right away.  If this is true, we are expending a great deal of effort in the wrong direction. I believe that these characteristics are the result of shared experiences.  This shared experience can be time spent in an office together, it could be a tradeshow event, an in-person meeting, or a work retreat.  We all have either heard of or participated in a team-building event. I feel that this may be the best way to address both the collaboration aspects of a return to office as well as the disadvantages of enforcing this rule. Teams, especially small ones, benefit from an opportunity to spend time together “off the clock.”  Most of my colleagues would be happy to compress the team building into a weekend rather than spreading it over a period of weeks at the office.  I predict that there will be a surge of business by providers who offer work-style retreats.  These can take the form of a cooking class, a hiking trip, or a weekend at a remote, scenic lodge.  The more unique, the better. Here are a couple of sites that specialize in these type of retreats. https://www.teamout.com/https://www.helpscout.com/blog/company-retreat-ideas/https://good-works.net/work-retreats/weekend-or-weeklong-work-retreats/ It’s time to get back to the business of developing our own “Super-Teams.”