While it's just me at the moment, say if I grow and hire more people. For you startup owners, is there value in having an office with in-person/hybrid work? Or is all-remote the way to go (and in-person/hybrid simply a layoff technique)?

Reddit is very biased towards remote work, but is only a subset of the population.

Prior to starting my business I was mostly a remote worker, a lot during COVID. I did in fact hate the job. I was hybrid in 2022 but went back remote for various reasons, and moved back to NYC in 2024.