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

Home only.

Why travel to an arbitrary location to access equipment at a different arbitrary location.

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.

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.

You should have the option always. If you can work without burning fossil fuels to get to a place of work, you should.

I’m 50/50. In my own job there are a lot of days where I am just sitting at my laptop doing drawings or inventory calculations or other menial bs. I try to work from home where I can, and it honestly is fine with me. If I do it more than 2 or 3 days in a row though I start to feel brain rot creeping in from too much sameness.

The rest of the time I am frequently handling supplier product samples, prototype test units, taking first article measurements, and doing other shop stuff for other people in the company. I can’t really work from home in those situations but it keeps my mind active and moving.

Hybrid, leaning towards office. At home I just can’t manage to manage myself.

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.

Team hybrid FTW.

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.

I like my hybrid schedule, it has a nice balance of being able to actually interact with people at the office and the flexibility of wfh.

I’m an office kind of person. I need a designated place to work. I also find that coworkers are less communicative when working remote.