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 go in to the office two days a week typically - by choice - because I like the focused office vibe and I want to see my colleagues.
I pick the days. I don’t have to announce them. If my alarm goes off and I feel like “damn I need an extra snooze” then I don’t go in. No explanation necessary.
Before Covid it was five days a week in office. I’m very glad for the choice.
Yeah I live alone and I need to see people daily in person or else I’ll go crazy. I love my coworkers.
BUT every person and workplace is different!!! I’m the same team as you…work where you’re best. For those whose jobs are flexible in location, it seems unfair to force someone to do either one or the other.
Work at ‘office’ only. For sure!
But that’s because I work with radioactive materials and I don’t want them in my 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”.
For me it’s the opposite, I’m too easily distracted so all the people talking around me while I try to work make me lose focus. At home I can sit there in peace and quiet and actually make it through a document
Office. For me personally: I like the contact with colleagues, I am more efficient in the workplace.
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.
Edit: Adding that I mentioned “common spaces” and I did not mean situations where people are forced to work in toxic environments. I have been lucky to develop many friendships and also help support many relationships that have formed in the past place I worked at. The majority of the people around me were introverts, working around like minded people helped all of us.
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.
I’m a millennial. The world has had complete overhauls every 10 years since I was born
I’m a carpenter, so I don’t work from home or in an office. However.
If your job could be done in a WFH context and you would rather be in an office, respectfully, I absolutely cannot understand where you’re coming from. Working from home sounds awesome.
Before COVID, I thought 100% wfh would be the bee’s knees.
It was not
I learned that even identifying as an introvert, I need more social contact than just my spouse and dog. 2-3 days in office would be optimal but if I have to choose all on-site or all wfh, I think it has to be all on-site.
I got wfh briefly when our offices flooded, and whatever undiagnosed things I have going on in my brain would not let me focus on my work in any way, shape, or form.
I wasn’t running around doing home things or playing video games or anything. I was sat in front of my computer, mentally incapable of doing the job I was trained in and skilled at. My brain just refused to go into work mode. My anxiety spiked and I got so frustrated at my mental block that I was in tears at one point. As soon as the officer was open, I returned before anyone else.
I like the idea of wfh, and will definitely try it again one day, but it seems that I need the change of environment to get my brain into gear.
There is no question that I prefer WFH, and I’m lucky enough to have an employer that doesn’t care about commercial real estate profits and would prefer to keep the money they would otherwise spend on renting office space.
Within our group we have application support people who do in-person support of our users and workstations. That team does hybrid WFH and has a rotating schedule so there is always one person at each site every day.
There are other teams that don’t actually have to be next to the user for support. Those teams are primarily WFH.
I was primarily on site through the pandemic and transitioned to WFH after things opened up.
Back when I was mostly on site, I would get concerned about things not getting done when I was WFH. Since I’ve switched to primarily WFH, I get concerned about things not getting done when I’m on site.
The only time I experienced any feeling of social isolation was at the height of the pandemic when I was on-site and alone in an office. I’m no less alone when I’m working from home now, but it doesn’t bother me.
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.
In the summer I like to go in so they can pay for air conditioning, in the winter I like to stay home so I don’t have to drive in the snow (I have to run the furnace either way so the pipes don’t freeze, so no energy saving there)
Team hybrid FTW.
