I’m Team Work Where You Are Best.
Some people that means an office. Some people it means remote. The plan is the workers do the thing and get the money. A manager needing to see their ass in a chair to feel good about himself is a little creepy.
I’ve been fully remote since 2018 and wouldn’t have it any other way. I can get chores and cooking done during the day, don’t waste time or money commuting, and I’m more available for both work and my family.
People keep telling me I should “leave my house” and “interact with people” but that’s always fraught with peril and disappointment
From a societal perspective I think we should be working in common spaces so we can be near people and learn to socialize. We’re losing second and third spaces. Fewer people having children also means less forced interaction and I fear we are heading towards a more isolated society.
Unfortunately, not everyone would lives close enough to comfortably go into an office, which leaves people burning 2-3hrs of their day just doing that. And all the commuting also impacts the Earth.
Having your coworkers be your only social interaction is a recipe for being exploited.
Third spaces are fine but if you make me come into an office for teamwork I’m finding another job that doesn’t make me pay to commute and be away from home.
Home only.
Why travel to an arbitrary location to access equipment at a different arbitrary location.
As much as I’d love to work from home, I can’t. I’m too easily distracted and work would be at the bottom of my priority list at all times.
I’ll happily support all of you home workers, but I can’t trust myself to do what I’m supposed to do during “work time”.
Home only for me. I just find myself a lot more productive when I’m not distracted by everything else happening around me in the office.
Meetings are easier through Zoom when you don’t have to worry about the logistics of reserving conference rooms and managing AV equipment, even when you have to deal with the occasional person who forgets to mute themselves.
I save a lot of money not having to drive and pay for gas. I save a lot of time not having to spend 45-ish minutes each way on a commute. And I eat healthier when I have time to prepare my own meals, while I’m too tempted to buy fatty food from the office cafe for lunch or buy fast food during my commute when I feel like I don’t have enough time to cook and meal prep.
A mix, mostly from him (I get more done), but face-to-face is good for meetings and socialising (which is important to keeping a group working well together)
WFH.
Working at the office would mean buying a car, getting insurance, paying for parking and adding another 1.5 hours to my day. It’s not worth it.
Office only, work from home is only allowed under very rare circumstances. Engineering for industrial manufacturing and if I worked from home about 80% of the questions I’d have would be answered by physically being there and watching the equipment run.
Team hybrid FTW.
