WFH or WFO?!

So here's my conundrum.

I am getting ready to hire. And the first question is, do I hire remote staff or do I have, in-person an in-person office?

I have worked from home for at least the last five years. And I haven't had staff plus I have excess space at my house. So there was no reason to have an office away from home. You know, why pay for the extra rent, the extra expense if I don't need it.

But I'm finding now that the pandemic's just wearing on and it's been more than a year and a half. I'm tired of working from home. And I find that I need to get out and at least see people.

I'm debating about whether to rent an office or not. And this morning I thought, oh, I'm just going to look up a couple of properties. See what's available.

I live in a quaint little town and it has one main road with a commercial section running through it.  There are a couple of office buildings, but some of them are just old homes that have been converted to an office space, which I actually think would be an ideal office for me. It's more me than an office in a corporate building, which there are some in the next town over.

It's the next town there are major highways, interstates, that cross each other. So there are a couple of different corporate parkways with really nice office space. But I just feel like it's not me.

So I went driving around this morning and found a couple of different places and I stopped. Every place I stopped is rented and here I thought it's the end of 2021 and I thought, oh, nobody's worked in an office for a year and a half now. So I should be able to find tons of options for office space at really good rates.

And the rate part wasn't even my concern it's just finding something that's really me and amazingly, the couple of places that struck me from the street that really I thought would be nice fits for me, they had for rent signs out, but in the last couple of weeks have been rented. They just didn't pull the rent signs from the street yet.

So I think, I feel like I'm back at square one. Do I continue to work from home in my windowless basement office? Or do I rent an office? Do I just keep looking? Do I wait? What do I do with staffing?

I feel like I need to make the decision about an office first because I don't want to hire remote staff and have an office, and yet it's not fair to hire somebody remotely and then force them to move into an office afterward.

So I'm not sure what I'm going to do. What are your thoughts? Let me know. Thanks.

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