Yes, been 100% WFH since 2015. I do miss the random chats in hallways, lunch room, etc, but definitely not worth going back to an office. I am far more effective at home.

I really like meeting up with coworkers and clients every few months, but almost exclusively because wfh makes me so much more productive that going to talk with people AFTER getting stuff done is very valuable.

I never thought I would be able to wfh before honestly I just thought I’d spend my career finding places to hide to work.

It is lonely and isolating. Especially after my divorce.

Idk. I really don’t.

Yes. Im way more efficient at home. Less offfice bullshit.

No commute or shitty weather.

Roll out of bed and online in seconds, just open the laptop lid, leave it in suspend.

My food and can cook a proper meal.

Also can throw on a wash or whatever during the day.

I have a contract that allows for up to 50% work from home. I use 0%. I live 10 minutes from work, so the commute isn’t significant (and it gives me a reason for some light exercise). It’s easier to work with colleagues if you’re talking face-to-face, and I like to mentally separate being in a working mindset and a relaxation mindset, which is more difficult if my home is a workplace.

People who socialize in the office hate wfh

People who socialize outside of the office love wfh

I love it and I’m never going back.

• I save myself the commute (time, gas).
• In closer to my son’s daycare, so it’s easier to pick him up of something spontaneously comes up.
• I’m near my dog throughout the day.
• I have the fridge close to me. ;-)
• I can do the laundry or start the vacuum robot at convenient times.
• I have less interruptions by blergh people.
• I don’t have to sit with my back towards the office door, which in turn was adjacent to the men’s room.
• I can wear casual legwear.
• Better coffee.
• My three person office at work is empty anyway, because my colleagues commuted from further apart and are happy about WFH as well. So my options are a) sit alone in my office at home or b) sit alone in my office at work.
• I’m here for deliveries throughout the day.
• I don’t have that loneliness/isolation issue going, but I do see that it’s wildly different among people; some are made for WFH and some need the office to be happy.

EDIT to add, because it’s an important factor and I read it in the answers:

• shitting on your own toilet, with proper toilet tissue, even through remote meetings.

Hard to say. I’d always pick WFH if the commute is otherwise long or unpleasant (might choose remote for half the week and in person for tne other half), but i do think being around other people working is best for my own productivity.

Your own toilet and good toilet paper instead of the cheapest waxy one-ply 🙏 your own control over the AC/heat instead of freezing/sweating 🙏 never having to smell someone heating up fish in the microwave 🙏

I’m 100% remote and love it

I’d say not having to commute is a huge benefit of WFH, but it has some pitfalls that can negatively impact your work performance depending on what you do.

This is helping me get through a meeting right now.

I absolutely prefer working from home.

I’m a programmer; my ability to work is heavily dependent on my ability to focus and think.

At home:

• I decide how quiet it is
• I decide when to look at or even think about interruptions from email or Slack
• I have a nice chair, a fancy ass keyboard and expensive mouse
• I also have a nice 27" monitor and a 34" ultrawide
• I decide when (or if) to eat lunch
• If I am eating lunch I have my own fridge, pantry, and numerous restaurants in a short walking distance.

My office, by comparison:

• I cannot control the volume of the radio or what it plays
• I cannot stop people from saying “Hey BozeKnoflook, what…” and just fucking ruining my last two hours of condensed thought and making me waste time getting back into my prior line of thought just to resume my previous state.
• The chair is acceptable, but I fucking loathe typing on a laptop keyboard
• The office only offers a 23" monitor to hook my laptop up to
• Everybody goes to eat in the building’s cafeteria at noon, because that is when lunch is served. There are no restaurants or food spots in a short walking distance that are a viable option. I can only eat what the cafeteria offers (and while okay, it’s not great food).

Throw in the time it takes to commute back and forth and… why the hell would I want to work in the office? Sure, throw an occasional event (quarterly meetings, occasional dinner parties of the various teams, whatever) to build personal relations but I am easily far, far less productive in the office than at home.

I never really hated my job or anything, and before COVID we even had an option to work from home one day a week, but I never bothered with it. But when I went to working from home full time, my quality of life improved significantly. Just driving to work used to be the most stressful part of my day, and eliminating that makes me so much happier. Not having to constantly “look busy” is also huge. As long as I get my work done my boss is happy. I also used to have bad neck and back pain which went away when I started work from home. Even though we have supposedly “ergonomic” setups at work, I guess something about it wasn’t working for my body. I love working from home so much now that I would more readily accept a pay cut than to have to go back to the office.

I would never want to go to an office again. Maybe it’s just me, but the social anxiety I feel by constantly being surrounded by strangers in tight quarters really weighs on me. There’s constant pressure to fit in, to do small talk, to ignore annoyances like that group of coworkers who never seem to be working and are always laughing loudly. The distractions, the social anxiety, and then there literally getting sick because someone comes to work sick as fuck. So many times I would hear people sneezing and coughing 15-20 feet from my desk and then within a couple of days I would also be sick (for weeks). Even at companies who encouraged wfh if sick. Ridiculous.

I do miss grabbing a beer after work with the select few coworkers who I actually bonded with, but then again even that often came with being forced to talk to a few people who kinda grated on my nerves.

I also enjoy being able to take walks and do chores from home without fearing being judged or reprimanded. I honestly probably get more work done at home anyway. In some ideal world where I’d go into an office with like < 10 people who I actually like, with a short or enjoyable commute, 3 days a week, I’d probably enjoy that a lot. But none of those conditions have been present at any job I’ve had or maybe even have heard of.

It’s also shitty for pets to be gone most of the day all week. So yeah, fuck an office. Can’t even wear the most comfortable clothes there, and my last office situation was extremely lax about the dress code. The negatives outweigh the positives several-fold for me.

(IT support) Overall it should be more appealing, but its honestly more distracting for me to be at home, and i dont even have a pet or a roommate. Significantly reduced gas/food budget (i cant stand being stuck in an office without getting up and going somewhere else for a while, so i ate out a lot) is a major pro as well.

I kinda like the ability to actually get up and go look at a piece of equipment rather than just poke at it remotely through a GUI or command lines. People can actually demonstrate whatever issue they’re having, right then and there.