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.
Office. For me personally: I like the contact with colleagues, I am more efficient in the workplace.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Home only.
Why travel to an arbitrary location to access equipment at a different arbitrary location.
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)
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
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”.
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.
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.
You got the ADHD too? Inattentive type, represent!
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.
Hmm. My work wasn’t just sitting in front of the computer, though that was about 2/3 of it. I had access to a fairly complete shop for building things, and I liked that part of the work, too.
I’d probably go to the office. But, there were people who worked there that never left their chair, and communicated by email and phone, so they could have been at home, and I wouldn’t have missed them.
Team hybrid FTW.
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.
