Home only.

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

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.

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".

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.

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

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.

WFH because 1) it's better for the environment 2) people I don't want to see are at the office 3) I don't wanna commute 1 hour one way 4) fuck getting up early 5) we call people that aren't in the office anyway, which defeats the point of showing up, and 6) I hate my job.

Work from home. I've really worked very little in an office, I find it unnecessary for collaboration and much more distracting than working from home.

Office. For me personally: I like the contact with colleagues, I am more efficient in the workplace.

Team hybrid FTW.

Home only.

Private bathroom. Private break room with full kitchen. No commute. No pants. What's not to love?

Plus, from the comfort of my home, behind the shield of a screen, I'm comfortable enough to say things and conduct myself in ways that are absolutely necessary to effectively do my job, but would never feel comfortable doing face-to-face.

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.

Work at 'office' only. For sure!
But that's because I work with radioactive materials and I don't want them in my home.

I’ve been wfh for i6 years, it would suck to go back now

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'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.

I live in a tiny micro studio apartment by myself - I could definitely work from home there but I'd quickly turn into an un-socialized hermit doing that long term. For better or worse I find there's some value actually getting myself out of the house and interacting with people IRL even if it's just work stuff.

Home except for rare occasional meetings for part of a day. Quarterly or maybe monthly.

I've worked from home for years. No horrid office lights, no people chatting or other sounds, just concentration and productivity.

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.

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.

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.

Working in the office is really nice, I enjoy it when I go. But the extra 3 hours of commute time added to my day really tire me out and make it hard to keep on top of the housework needed to stay alive.

When I stay home I have more of my life together. When I go to the office I have more of my work together. It seems I can't have both. Hybrid is the best for me, but if I had to choose, WFH only. I would simply perish if I had to work 5 days a week. I would eat only cup noodles, the house would be filthy, I would have nearly 0 clean clothes.

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)

Hybrid. Getting up that early and dealing with traffic/the subway is a $$ PITA. But there are some things I can only do in the office, so I'm WFH mon-tues until someone tells me I can’t.

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.

And then there are the days when you haul ass out of bed and fight your way in to the office, only to find that the network’s having problems and you have to work on the WiFi anyway. Why am I here, again? 🙄

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 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.

Personally, it entirely depends on:

• how far way I am from the office
• how many other people are in the open office

If I were 5 minutes walk from the office, I would walk there because it provides better separation from work. It would be much easier to tell the boss "sorry boss, I am not at the office and thus I cannot take a look". Not that my current dayjob has much of this, but, structurally, it would make it much better.

On the other hand, at home I get the benefits of peace and quiet. I am going to be on calls with remote people anyway, so I would rather not deal with echos, or noise from other people having their meetings. I also realize that I am a bigger bother in person because I will do the in-person equivalent of shooting off a slack message. A slack message can be snoozed. I cannot be snoozed when I talk to the person next to me. And, sure, I try not to, but it is a thing I do.

I am currently 100% remote, though, and it is one of the reasons I am not even attempting to look for another job. I get so much flexibility because I can just take my laptop with me and work from wherever the internet hotspot allows.

I could but team work office over home better.

I do better at home and save 2+ hours a day of commuting time. There are fewer interruptions at home and most of my work is computer-based. However, I currently only WFH one day a week (officially).
Ideally a hybrid would be best for me; I would WFH M/W/F and in office T/R.

I don't drive and I'm out in the middle of the suburbs, so commuting is rough.

Thank god my work doesn't involve using the computer so my pick is neither but if I absolutely had to choose then I'd rather go to office than work from home. I still get the occasional custom order that I have to manufacture at home so I know how difficult it is to get anything done when there's no-one holding me accountable.

I'm a millennial. The world has had complete overhauls every 10 years since I was born

I am for fully remote work. But there are a number of conditions here:

First of all, if you are a remote worker, you need to delineate zones. You shouldn't work from bed or from a sofa in front of the TV. Set up a workspace for yourself. It could even be just an old table on a loggia. But it must physically exist.

Secondly, you cannot stretch time. If you work in a team, try to stick to a common schedule or discuss time zones in advance. There is nothing worse than a situation where you need to resolve an urgent issue, but the person who has the knowledge to solve it will only be online in 5 hours.

Thirdly, you need to have enough motivation to carry out the previous two points. This is important.

If all this works out, then remote work is magnificent. The commute to work is zero, and lunch can be whatever you want. It also solves the problem of open-plan offices. In recent years, they have turned the interior zones of those offices into warehouses filled with desks. It's terrible.

Personally, I work from home, and in the evening I leave the apartment to go for a walk or sit in a park. This is enough to not feel lonely. Especially since the commute to work used to take me 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour back in the evening. In that time, you could sit through a movie session and still have time for go home from movie theater.

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.