Hybrid vs in-person is a meaningless debate. Once you’re hybrid, you’ve restricted your candidate pool to an hour’s drive radius around the office. The damage has been done at that point.
Depends where you live - Australia has a lot of FiFo work, Fly In Fly Out on minesites and for various kinds of office work.
There's certainly people I know that live several hundred km away from a capital city, work remote, and come in for two or three days to catch up with everbody once a fortnight, once a month, etc.
Virtually all the "hybrid" companies I've seen have 2/3 day in-office, 3/2 day remote schedules for office work. That doesn't necessarily apply to say, the employees working loading docks and shipping, but a couple days a month feels different enough to justify its own term.
1) that's mostly mining, or oil & gas, or the like and usually needs bodies on site. NOC folks and developers aren't flying to Outer Nowhere to type C# in a poorly air conditioned sea-can.
2) FIFO is rarely 2 days in office 3 at home, it's 2 weeks on site and 1 week off -- or similar. Many day stretches. "once a month, etc." is far more common.
3) FIFO to major cities like Perth is more workable simply because the airport and infrastructure are there. It's a shorter flight to somewhere like Carnarvon, West Australia, but they literally don't have the aiport size or housing capacity.
