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[GeorgioCostanzaX]

Just a random thought. I actually don’t mind working from home at all now but had a conference call today where a few folks overseas were together in a conference room. Just from an audio quality standpoint my ears were on fire. When everyone is on zoom with their own screen it’s just so much easier to have a conversation and I think it’s a superior way to do group meetings. Whereas pre COVID I kinda hated Zoom.

But when / if offices open up its actually worse if some people are in groups in person and others are remote. It kind of has to be one or the other IMHO. Either we all WFH or some of us do occasionally?

 

[Nymphae]

Our place does rotation for those that want to do it. I don't, I'm here everyday, but people around me have partners and they do one week on and one week off, seems to work fine.

 

[manfestival]

People have been doing this. Maybe not to this capacity but it has been around for some time. It also depends on the line of work too.

 

[iconmaster]

I've been remote for over ten years. Sometimes when most of my team was as well, sometimes when few were. I stay productive regardless.

 

[Drake]

The way my work schedule is setup I have a few WFH day a month and no, nothing gets done. I hate it. I hate being cooped up in my condo for that long.

 

[diffusionx]

I've been working from home since March 18th or so and am utterly sick of it. I'm not even close to my capability or drive.

I doubt I am alone.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

I don't miss the office. I can do my job perfectly fine from home. Plus I don't have a 2 hour daily commute.

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

I don't miss the office. I can do my job perfectly fine from home. Plus I don't have a 2 hour daily commute.

I don’t miss commuting either especially when factoring in dropping the kid off from school etc. If I single I’d be bored AF. Honestly I’d be fine if I just had to come in like a few times a month for meetings where a majority of people in the room are on site but otherwise I’m fine and way more productive so now I don’t actually mind answering an urgent after hours slack or email. I just grind when I need to and relax when I don’t instead of trying to make it look like I’m busy all the time at the office.

 

[TrainedRage]

It should be called "W"FH

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

It should be called "W"FH

Funny I only ever hear managers that don’t trust their employees say that. Everyone else just gets their shit done and it’s readily apparent if they’re slacking off and missing deadlines.

 

[Aesius]

I've been WFH for the past 7 years. Freelance for most of it but also a few full-time and contract positions.

In my current role it was just me and one other guy who were WFH while everyone else was in the office. Then COVID happened and everyone went WFH, which is mostly still the case. It's actually been beneficial because others have slacked off a bit while my productivity hasn't taken a hit whatsoever as I'm used to it.

 

[Blond]

It doesn’t for me. I left my old position at GAP Corporate IT for a federal contract, the moment I went to WFH it felt like tech support than actual IT as the stuff I use to do in person I was dispatching third party techs to do.

I always thought I wanted it and that was clearly misguided.

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

I've been WFH for the past 7 years. Freelance for most of it but also a few full-time and contract positions.

In my current role it was just me and one other guy who were WFH while everyone else was in the office. Then COVID happened and everyone went WFH, which is mostly still the case. It's actually been beneficial because others have slacked off a bit while my productivity hasn't taken a hit whatsoever as I'm used to it.

Yeah for me it’s just meetings are generally a bit more productive with everyone remote vs some remote and some huddled around a shitty $1500 polycom speaker that some how sounds worse than my $150 AirPods.

 

[teezzy]

Before all this nonsense I was able to work from home for 3 outta 5 days a week anyhow. I just did Tuesday through Thursday because there were resources at the central office I needed Monday and Friday. Worked well for me.

 

[Wings 嫩翼翻せ]

I've been working from home since March 18th or so and am utterly sick of it. I'm not even close to my capability or drive.

I doubt I am alone.

No, you’re not.

Sure, not having to drive is great. I lived 9 minutes from my place of work when working from home... however I am not a big vehicle person. It very easily became annoying though. It had to be my job but I had so much time on my hands, it was ridiculous.

That’s me, though.

 

[Ornlu]

I discovered during the 8 weeks or so this spring/summer when 95% of our people were gone or WFH...that shit ran AMAZING with the few of us that were considered essential enough to keep trucking in to work every day.

Every order was correct. Every order went out on time. Every customer was happy. I thought for sure we were going to be struggling, but it turned out to be the opposite.
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Then everyone came back in and all of the masks/spacing/etc. went into effect, while at the same time the usual issues came back with those who cause them.
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Now our Fuhrer has decreed that business must again be fucked, so let's see what happens this time around!

 

[quickwhips]

Just a random thought. I actually don’t mind working from home at all now but had a conference call today where a few folks overseas were together in a conference room. Just from an audio quality standpoint my ears were on fire. When everyone is on zoom with their own screen it’s just so much easier to have a conversation and I think it’s a superior way to do group meetings. Whereas pre COVID I kinda hated Zoom.

But when / if offices open up its actually worse if some people are in groups in person and others are remote. It kind of has to be one or the other IMHO. Either we all WFH or some of us do occasionally?

Now imagine dealing with this from a local state legislature stand point. Feel my pain.

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

Now imagine dealing with this from a local state legislature stand point. Feel my pain.

Oh god! Man I honestly can old imagine near 100% boomers on Zoom. I think the olds prefer in office due to their complete tech incompetency.