Yes. Im way more efficient at home. Less offfice bullshit.
No commute or shitty weather.
Roll out of bed and online in seconds, just open the laptop lid, leave it in suspend.
My food and can cook a proper meal.
Also can throw on a wash or whatever during the day.
People who socialize in the office hate wfh
People who socialize outside of the office love wfh
I love it and I'm never going back.
EDIT to add, because it's an important factor and I read it in the answers:
Your own toilet and good toilet paper instead of the cheapest waxy one-ply 🙏 your own control over the AC/heat instead of freezing/sweating 🙏 never having to smell someone heating up fish in the microwave 🙏
I'm 100% remote and love it
I'd say not having to commute is a huge benefit of WFH, but it has some pitfalls that can negatively impact your work performance depending on what you do.
Fully remote for years now and never want an on-site job again. I don't mind going for a couple of events a year, though.
I can take my "smoke break" to change loads of laundry or do something else around the house. I have no commute time nor expenses. I am always here for deliveries. I regained so much of my time that I can use for study or entertainment. (Assuming a 1-hour commute, even if most of that is on a train, that's 10 hours a week back from that alone).
For success, your company and you need to have good communication and planning. It's also not for everyone, especially more social people.
I've been WFH since 2020, and it's working well for me.
There are some obvious benefits such as not having a commute, being able to do laundry during breaks and always being there when a package arrives.
Some maybe less obvious advantages I personally enjoy is being able to eat whenever, meaning a quick snack but also my lunch, and wearing less appealing but way more comfortable clothes.
Oh, and shitting in my own toilet. While getting paid for it. Definitely that.
I'm not gonna dismiss the potential challenges, though. It works well for me because I don't mind being alone and I'm lucky to have a spare room to use as an office. Without those two factors it could easily enter suck territory.
Unquestionably yes. My coffee doesn't taste like shit, and my PJs are far more comfortable than any office attire imaginable.
Depends if you're an introvert or an extrovert. As an introvert I only see benefits; no commute, a close bathroom at all times, a kitchen with food, not needing to hear annoying coworkers except during meetings etc. If you're an extrovert then you might enjoy hearing your coworkers all day I guess?
Or if you have a toxic household you need to escape from.
Working from home, no commute, no clothes, no travel time, no car, easy food.
It's so efficient, it's crazy.
There is real value to working not-at-home, but working from home outweighs it in 99% of situations.
The reality is, and has been, and should be:
LISTEN TO AND TRUST PEOPLE WHEN THEY TELL YOU THEY LIKE OR DON'T LIKE SOMETHING.
From home since epidemic started and I would want to hug covid if it was a person.
My productivity in office was always low. Too many distractions, too many inconveniences. Then there is an issue with getting to the office - it's an additional hour of my life they are not paying extra for. And of course - at home I can work while doing simple chores. But the most important is that I can be with my daughters, instead of being just another father that spends half a day at work and the other half sleeping.
Yes. Cat.
Really one day I realized I rather eat lunch with my cats than any of my coworkers and have never looked back
Yes, been 100% WFH since 2015. I do miss the random chats in hallways, lunch room, etc, but definitely not worth going back to an office. I am far more effective at home.
I get paid to be on a computer while sitting at home. regardless of the output or pay, the environment is exquisite.
I did Corp office work for ... years... then worked toward wfh goals toward end of 20-teens. been remote since 2019.
but there's a certain expectation and performance that comes with it. years of Corp work taught me to be punctual and professional, etc. politeness / teamwork /soft skills still come into play, even remotely.
WFH is awesome.
Can take breaks from work to drop off/pick up kid from school. Saving like 15% of my paycheque that would go to daycare otherwise.
Car insurance is cheaper, because no matter how much I drive I'm not commuting to work so the insurance company counts me as "occasional driver".
I can loudly and violently swear at bullshit emails.
I can listen to my own music on speakers while working.
Minor cons though:
I'm getting weirder due to the lack of minor social interactions that otherwise I'd get on the bus, sidewalk, office, cafe, so on.
Some cabin fever from being in the same space all day. I live in an apartment so I don't have a separate room for my work computer. Turn off work computer, turn on personal computer, and it's the same screens while I sit in the same chair. On the other hand this does motivate me to get outside after work to exercise or do errands.
Sometimes. There's a lot less office BS at home, but it gets very quiet and isolated, even if you intentionally make a trip out during lunch or whatever.
The commute sucks though. Always.
One reason that’s in favour is that people who cannot WFH benefit because there’s fewer people clogging up the commute. I always bring this up with people who say “must be nice but I can’t build a house/save patients/etc. from home”. Some people like that feel that because they need to be somewhere, office dwellers should too. But it actively makes their life more difficult!
Yep - I always disliked having to figure out food for the day before heading into the office. I'm not ready to eat breakfast until closer to noon, but once I start eating, I want to snack every hour or two while working.
As others have said, working from home has many benefits
The commute alone is pretty big. If your commute is like an hour, that's changing your salary from like $x / 10 hours to $x / 8 hours. That's a big bump. If your daily pay was $1000, that's like going from $100/hour to $125/hour.
Feb 16 2020 was the last day I stepped into an office. The first person to die of COVID in the USA was not far from my office and HR sent everyone home.
At the time, I had a 1 year old son and watched his first steps over a small phone screen. Listen to him say his first word though my headset at work. I fucking hated it.
After COVID, I watched my son grow up and experience everything. From the highs and lows. I love it.
The major downside is that WFH jobs are very few and I had to quit multiple jobs because of RTO policies. Today, I opened a business and just work as a contractor. Even though I don't make as much, I wouldn't change it for the world.
I love it. No commute, optional shower, no pants. I'm not a very big pants guy, and that's a huge seller.
A little. I like 1 or 2 days at home. I tried total WFH and I got very lonely. I am an extrovert, so being in an office fits me.
However my current role is 100% in office. I also don't like that. I don't have the flexibility to schedule people to work on my house, it's expensive to commute, I miss my dog.
I'd love a hybrid 2/3 schedule.
Have done wfh full time for about 6 years now (since the rona), I would never go back to a full time or even hybrid role unless forced. I would sooner quit my job if they forced me into a hybrid position.
The freedom is so much greater and I get so much more done than when I do occasionally have to go into an office for meetups or workshops (maybe 5-6 times a year).
The style of working is different to that of being in office, you have to be self motivating, semi-solo problem solving and you need a reasonably quiet workspace. This can be hard to get in some situations so I feel very lucky to be able to do it.
The company also needs to be setup to promote and support remote working, so having regular check ins with people and making sure people have support in place should they need it. Plus policies that work for remote workers as opposed to in office workers.
13/10 would recommend.
Yes. I have worked at both and I feel much more comfortable at home. It gives you a level of flexibility that is hard to describe. I can start my day early, take a break for an hour, and resume it when I feel I can give it the proper level of attention. When I was in office, there was a pressure to look like you're working all the time. It felt hard to concentrate when the expectation was on dedicating the expected time to work rather than getting something done. With WFH, it's more about getting your tasks done and generally no one cares when you do it. And I can slouch and prop my feet up and have videos/music/audiobooks playing and whatever else I want without anyone knowing, let alone caring. I don't need to worry about a commute, and all my food and comforts are available when I want them. I can easily handle things like being at home for a package delivery or a technician repairing something or walking the dog or just doing laundry.
That being said, I will admit it is considerably harder to get help with a task in office. You can't just have someone pop by to look at something for example. You can still do a call or message, but it's a bigger barrier to overcome. With WFH, collusion for a group more often needs to be scheduled, and you don't have an analogue for water cooler talk.
Many places that offer work from home also have an office somewhere, so I would recommend new employees go in while learning the ropes, then switch as they become more independent. And some people like having different locations to help switch between work and relaxation mentalities. And it can be nice to get out of the house too. But overall, WFH is much better for me.
It is lonely and isolating. Especially after my divorce.
Idk. I really don't.
I do a lot of telework and very little on-site work. Like 80% teleworking. I love the telework. I get to sleep 45 minutes later, don't have to get frustrated during my commute, save money on gas, have a discounted auto insurance rate, save on car maintenance, socialize with my coworkers over Teams (which is as much as I need to socialize with them), eat most of my meals with my wife who I enjoy spending time with. All the downtime at my job is now spent doing things like washing dishes, doing laundry, watching TV and movies, and reading, instead of listening to coworkers talk about inane stuff or having admin hover around micro- managing.
There are a multitude of reason why I like it.
The most important is that I am not wasting an hour and change commuting. I don't need to worry about train schedules. Commuting by car would have been worse: I'd spend hundreds of euros on gas and tolls, never mind parking. I also don't have a bunch of dead time I cannot really take advantage of. Sure, some of it I could use to read in public transport, or listen to podcasts, but there is a limit. I am prone to motion sickness, so there are limits to when I can do it and for how long. And during peak hours? The experience of getting on a train is, sometimes, not great. Too many people, too hot. As much as I love public mass transport, the experience during peak hours is miserable.
The other thing about WFH, in my current setup, is that... I can just step away? I have gone to a friends house to give them and/or deliver something during work hours because I just have enough time. I have driven parents for appointments because it was quick enough, or I could just take my work laptop with me and work from the car. I have worked from another country entirely, and the biggest difference was the timezone. And if I really want to, I can visit a teammate and work from his house instead!
There are few other reasons why work from home is great, though they are not that important in the grand scheme of things. In the places I have worked, we have had open spaces. This means noise. Others might need to be on a call, or you might need to be on a call. It means that multiple people in the same call is now an exercise in mute discipline so you don't distract others hearing themselves through your microphone. It also means I cannot just pace around while on a chat, which I sometimes do thanks to the wireless headphones I invested in. Actually, it means I need to use my headphones much more because if I want music, I need them on, whereas at home I can just use speakers instead?
We do get togethers once a month, though I don't go to all of them. We also are relatively liberal with audio chats for not so serious subjects. I don't feel lonely for two reasons: I just deal well with calls and other such ways of interacting with people; and I can use the extra time I don't commute to actually go out with people I like after work.
I work part time from home and part time in office
Pros
Cons
I have a sick setup at home. Plus all the conveniences others mentioned already.
But really, it's being with the family, seeing your kids during the day. I don't want to just come home when they're already asleep.
As an engineer, hybrid works best for many of us.
Design phase can be wfh with some in-person idea sessions or important meetings because I have yet to be at an online idea session that was as productive as in-person being able to draw things out and visualize better, and people tend to not speak up or just check out and agree at the end in online meetings.
Testing phase has to be mostly in person for lab tool access and collaboration on physical things.
I have worked with a contractor that did everything from home and had a whole home lab, but it was a big time sink and cost shipping parts back and forth 5 times and you couldn't physically probe behaviors together which leads to slightly different setups and sometimes different results.
Socially I moved to a place where I had no friends so I like getting social contact at work since in Belgium, it is extremely difficult to make new friends after you are done with school because of a culture of not talking to anyone else unless people are obnoxiously drunk lol. I like wfh on overwhelming days and in-person on days where I want more social contact.
That being said, I work 100% in office now because I live a 12 minute bike ride from work, so very easy.
I WFH 2 days a week and commute to three different offices according to where they need me. WFH is for concentration, office time is for collaboration.
I need the home-work separation, or both suffer. I constantly get distracted from work with home stuff, and can't be fully present with family at home because I'm thinking about work.
Been 100% WFH for 4ish years now, absolutely do not want to go back. It's no different than working in the office during covid really, and this way I don't have a commute longer than it takes me to walk up a flight of stairs
Totally love WFH. I can hang out with my dog while working, get laundry done on breaks, and no commute leaves way more free time in my life. I would never go back to working in an office unless I was in dire straights.
You know those times at the office where things are slow so you walk the hallway or bullshit with colleagues or make a coffee run or spin in your chair?
You know what I'm doing during those times? Petting my dog. Making a sandwich. Pooping on my own toilet with three ply TP.
Different people like different things, I suppose. I don't miss the commute or the bullshit, but I do miss interacting with colleagues. And I'm pretty sure I haven't been promoted because I don't have enough face time with the bosses. All that to say I am mixed on it.
I work remote 100%. All the replies cover a lot of things that I love about it already. One important thing that I think helps to WFH is to make the spot you work, devoted only to work. I have a small desk set up that I use for work. When I’m done I’m never at the desk again until I’m working again. I think there’s a negative effect if you make your workspace also your play space.
80% wfh, 1 day at the office. I'd prefer 100% wfh, I just cannot deal with these open plan offices and sales people not taking their calls into a booth, or having the room pling-plong from whatsapp notifications. Drives me up the wall, even with my NC headphones on.
I never really hated my job or anything, and before COVID we even had an option to work from home one day a week, but I never bothered with it. But when I went to working from home full time, my quality of life improved significantly. Just driving to work used to be the most stressful part of my day, and eliminating that makes me so much happier. Not having to constantly "look busy" is also huge. As long as I get my work done my boss is happy. I also used to have bad neck and back pain which went away when I started work from home. Even though we have supposedly "ergonomic" setups at work, I guess something about it wasn't working for my body. I love working from home so much now that I would more readily accept a pay cut than to have to go back to the office.
Single father with two school aged kids, mom lives in another state. I’ve turned down a couple higher paying executive roles that have been offered to me the last few years because I don’t know how I could make it work. I get my kids up at 7 and the latest one can’t be to school until 9. I have to start getting them from school at 3:30. I’m sure I could figure it out, plenty of people less fortunate than I am but I guess that I’ve decided that I’m incredibly fortunate that I can always be around and available for my kids and I don’t think I would disrupt that for any amount of money as long as I can provide for them this way. I do miss the social aspects of my colleagues sometimes though which really surprised me.
I've been fully remote for 12 years. I've had two jobs during that time and moved five times over three countries.
I'm glad I got into my industry on-site. But I've come to realize that I hate cities. I hate commutes. I'd rather take a pay cut and live somewhere cheap.
My wife works from home, too. We have two dogs. We do our meetings, have time for focused work and grab lunch together.
My previous job was definitely not lonely or isolating. I was the go-to-guy for everything, so people video calling all day long. My current job gives me space to get shit done. I've got two days a week blocked off for just deep code mode. No meetings.
If you don't like the job on-site, then you're not going to like it remote. You've got to do something that feels rewarding.
Yes: I don't have to waste time on the commute, and get to spend more time with family
No: When at the office, I am more easily focused; with WFH, it takes some effort. Commute means I get some walking "exercise" in (living in a walkable EU city). Being in the office is somewhat better for collaboration with colleagues.
It's for sure not all "rainbows and sunshines", but in the end, I by far prefer to save the commute time and invest it into other aspects of life.
Despite socializing a lot when I was working at the office, I pretty much immediately loved working from home after the initial 3 months. I'd gone back in temporarily a couple of times for a few reasons, and the whole environment was... Bad.
I run really hot in general, so being able to control my AC was great, since I swear the office was on 74 with about a thousand bodies worth of heat in a comparatively small space. To emphasize: I tend to open a window when it's anywhere between 0-50F (-17 to 10C) outside.
Everyone had on different kinds of perfume, which just blended into this awful smell on top of whatever cleaning chemicals they used. Having 30+ people talking within earshot made it hard to focus on anything. I could go on. I didn't realize how much I hated it until I started working from home, and it was so much better.
I hate working from home. I find that I can't get into the headspace to work while at home. I find coordination is a pain in the ass and you get to better understand what is going on by physically being there.
It is also frustrating dealing with people who say they are "doing their work" but you find out that they didn't coordinate like they said they would and the two things they designed don't interact with each other.
I love it because I bought everything I need to feel good in my office : a dock to switch easily between work and personal computers, a standup desk, many things to reduce back, neck and shoulder pain too. I have a wall painted that I can look at when I need to have a break. I don't have transport, so I wake up 15mn before work starts. There is no noise. When I feel I can work less without feeling tracked : as long as I get my work done in time, there's no issue. I can take breaks to do some house-related tasks (tho I don't take breaks lately, but I could do it).
I could not go back to any job requiring me to go to the office.
This is helping me get through a meeting right now.
Depends on how busy I am. If I'm just sitting around waiting to hear from people or deal with shit as it occurs. Yea WFH is nice because I have more shit to occupy my downtime. If I'm busy and need to focus it sucks ass. Also it's nice to interact with the coworkers I actually like in person and I think it makes us get along a lot better and work more effectively. I don't know how many of my coworkers would agree though. All of them except one barely come into the office. It's just my opinion though I wouldn't try to force them in more.
I used to get overstimulated a lot at office jobs. Turns out I can prevent it just fine from home. For my own mental and physical health I’ll pick working from home any day of the week. Some meetings are more useful in person though, so I do go to the office for those.
Working at home since 2020, and while I agree with the advantages most people post here, I definitely miss talking with people over lunch, or even getting out for After Work beers now and then. (Obviously that depends a lot on if you like your coworkers or not)
This is apparently a super controversial opinion but I wouldn't mind working somewhere that forces people to the office 2, maybe 3 days a week. Just not every day.
I work remotely from a different country so I don't really have a choice but I'd show up to work 1-2 times per week because they offer free food and see the people I've been working with the past 4 years.
That being said, I love the fact I don't have to commute, chats and calls always have a main agenda but we also chat about games, movies etc. occasionally. I can work uninterrupted most of the day
I work 2 days in the office and three from home. It is a perfect balance, where I can do the in person interactions with non-technical people who need that connection and then buckle down and get a bunch of work done without office distractions the other three days.
It does help that I have a work area from distractions in the home, not quite an office but with a door at least.
Reduced commute (especially when the weather is crummy!), not needing to dress up on wfh days, eating food at home and being able to do house chores on breaks are the biggest benefit although the money saved is nice too.
I'm liking it, in moderation. Just rolling out of bed, turning on my computer and making coffee on company time right away is very time efficient. It's also nice that I can work in peace and ignore coworkers whenever I need to.
The downside is that it's pretty annoying to collaborate on things, especially if it's with more than one person at a time. Gotta schedule a meeting, even if in person it would just be a thing of walking over and talking to them for 5mins.
My ideal mix is 4 days wfh : 1 day in-office. I get all the talking out of the way on that one day (plus it's enough socialization for the whole week) and the rest I just exist in peace.
A lot of the personal benefits have already been spoken of.
What my work has really found value in is that WFH has nationalized what was once a single office team. So people from across the country work together. We have access to more talented people not just those from the office city.
Something blows up late on the East Coast? And a person on the West Coast can immediately respond because they are three or four hours behind.
I dream of being able to WFH. But I am just a high school graduate. The only kind of job I really could get that would allow for remote work is certain aspects of IT, reception/call service, or sales. And I don't wanna do sales. It's not that I can't do other jobs, I just very likely won't even get an interview when I have no degree in anything.
No, not really.
I have quite different desk setups and it just feels strange working on my home setup. It's fine for the odd weekend fix under an hour, but for proper work I'd rather go to the office. Also less distractions (cats) in the office.
Even during covid I was pretty much at the office every day. Someone had to be there to receive mail and such, so I volunteered.
I thought I'd hate working from home, it wasn't too bad. Then they made us hybrid, I thought oh no, worst of both worlds, it wasn't that bad either. I went back to the office full time because I don't have a home office and wanted to reclaim that space.
It's pretty much the same job but teams meetings suck even more than in person meetings, and training new people too, worse.
What I do not like is a commute. I live about one mile from work so don't even have to drive most days, if it was farther the calculation would be different.
My family loved me working from home because I did more of the cooking and housework, it kind of intensifies that inequality I think.
So I think personally I didn't get much benefit from working from home but it was not nearly as bad as I thought it might be, if I had to I would.
I have a contract that allows for up to 50% work from home. I use 0%. I live 10 minutes from work, so the commute isn't significant (and it gives me a reason for some light exercise). It's easier to work with colleagues if you're talking face-to-face, and I like to mentally separate being in a working mindset and a relaxation mindset, which is more difficult if my home is a workplace.
Somewhat, but it also scares me.
I know that I'm very introverted. I like to go "heads down" writing code all day. However I'm also painfully aware from experience that not talking to others means I'm out of the loop and soon I'm developing great code for something the company doesn't need. I need to spend time in the office listening to others talk - I get much less done, but at least what I get done are things the company cares about, and in turn I'm much more likely to keep my job (having to find a new job is one of the worst things that can happen to an introvert - I have to convince strangers to hire me)
Right now I go to the office about 16 hours a week, which seems to be enough. I also live close enough to work that I can ride my bike - in turn commute time is also exercise time, something I need to get more of anyway.
On ocassion yes.
But as you said it feels kinda lonely.
And I get really easily distracted. Last time I had a major side quest I did instead of doing my actual job.
Edit: And I have no office. I value my mental sanity by segregating my home/living space from my working place.
Yes. I had a hybrid position pre COVID that was 2/3 days a week home at alternating weeks, due to a lack of available desks in our office building. That was always nice when I worked from home. I enjoyed doing laundry during the day and being able to stop work and immediately get to switch off, as opposed to the days in office where I'd deal with driving home and traffic.
I switched to a fully in office job when Covid hit, and our office when fully remote. Other than training and onboarding, I haven't been required in office since. I love remote work. I won't go back unless I have absolutely no other choice
I work from home for about 75% of my work. Today, I have to drive somewhere this morning, and then again somewhere this evening. I will spend in the realm of 2.5-3 hours in the car today. I do not get paid for travel. I will not be able to get in my daily run today. I probably won't see my kids after I drop them at school. I'll get home around 11pm tonight.
So yeah, I love wfh. But for the case of my job tonight, it's very good money, and not the perfect use case for remote (although certainly doable considering we did for years), and so I eat it, it's whatever. I generally have 7 or so jobs a month that I need to travel. Twice the commute is about 40m each way. The other five are 5-15m commutes so they're fine.
I am like her, but I hate the commute and that my dogs are lonely. Some workplaces do work-from-home well, and most don't. So that may be part of her problem. Seems to work best at companies where they started and continue to be remote-only.
I like it. I would not go back.
But I have a nice home office, don’t live alone, and found office culture and colleagues to be disruptive.
I have ADHD. My job tends to be wide but not necessarily deep. A “quick question” can cause me to lose my train of thought, cause me to get disordered while trying to figure what the hell I was doing, get shut down by the frustration, and lose hours in ‘wait mode’ for the next interruption because it took me so long to enter a flow state that I’m fearful I’ll get interrupted again.
Being able to shut my office door, silence notifications, and focus with music playing in the background has been incredible for me.
I'd be honest. I'd personally love a dedicated WFH day(s) it's truly the best of both worlds
Oh, yeah, I've been self-employed from home for years. Go to bed when I want, wake up when I want. I usually get my work done before noon, and have the rest of the day. On the day of an event, I might put in 12-15 straight hours of hard work at a job site, but that's only once or twice a week, and it's actually the fun part of the job.
I don't miss office politics at all, and it only sounds like it's gotten far worse.
I absolutely prefer working from home.
I'm a programmer; my ability to work is heavily dependent on my ability to focus and think.
At home:
My office, by comparison:
Throw in the time it takes to commute back and forth and... why the hell would I want to work in the office? Sure, throw an occasional event (quarterly meetings, occasional dinner parties of the various teams, whatever) to build personal relations but I am easily far, far less productive in the office than at home.
Working from home for 8 years now and it's the best. I don't need to deal with people I don't like. I can have a comfortable setup with a decent chair and desk and not have to fight for it every day. I have enough free time after work to do whatever I want. I can live wherever I want. There's no downside to it at all.
I switched my company to WFH in 2012. The advantages are.numerous but it requires discipline in two rarely discussed fronts.
Love it! Clients have better accessibility; lose less of their days in commute, they are now able to see a niche professional state / nation wide, and I can charge 40% less in not having an office.
At the moment it seems like market forces are pushing me back to an office. I will pass the increased costs to consumers.
It's alright.
I'm glad I can take my laptop and essentially work anywhere with a power outlet and an internet connection.
I was working from home for a couple of years and had a mixed appreciation for it. While I was still driving my wife to her job in the morning, it was nice to come home and start my day. Less gas and all that. But not having coworkers around, and not enough separation from the home space sent me stir-crazy often. My wife had a ride home from work since my schedule went past hers, and I would be trying to go places or something after work and she just wanted to chill after her retail management day. But since I was laid off and had to re-enter retail management myself, I wouldn't mind a hybrid situation if I had the choice.
I loved it, I had a lot of tasks that would only require intervention every few minutes so I could initiate a task and then go start laundry or something. At the end of the day I was actually free and not just bogged down with more chores.
The biggest drawback was not being around coworkers that I actually liked but that same coin meant I didn't have to be around people I didn't like.
I think if I took another remote job I'd put more effort into having a 3rd place.
Nope, I am an IT guy, I live alone in my two room apartment, and I just can't focus on work when I am working at home.
Sometimes I have to, but it sucks
Yes, I don't lose 2-3 hours daily commuting.
I like both. I am allowed to work 4/5 days from home, but I choose to only do 2. I commute to the office by bike in 15 minutes which gives me a fresh start into the day. I can concentrate better in the office. It just doesn't feel nice to me finished my work and moving 2 meter to sit on my couch, I like the feeling of getting home.
The 1-2 days per week I really appreciate, I usually WFH Mondays and Fridays. I can understand everybody who prefers staying home. However I really see a benefit in seeing your colleagues from time to time, I hate meetings and headphones.
I really like meeting up with coworkers and clients every few months, but almost exclusively because wfh makes me so much more productive that going to talk with people AFTER getting stuff done is very valuable.
I never thought I would be able to wfh before honestly I just thought I'd spend my career finding places to hide to work.
Yes WFH was the best thing to ever happen to me. Saves 2 hours of commute time per day, I can focus without overhearing four simultaneous conversations in my immediate area, my dogs are with me, I can do chores around the house when there's downtime. The only downside is there's no access to my lab so I still have to go in once in a while. Now that my job is forcing RTO I'm desperately searching for a new WFH position but they're starting to get a little scarce and often don't contact me back after applying.
I dont. My appartment is small. And i cant focus. I dont have a "hey i am at work" mindset. Because of that i take the way 1 ½ hours to work
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