Kagey K
Banned
Now that work from home is a thing, and you get to write off home office 3090s are required and ultra responsive monitors as well
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Starting to feel like WFH is going to be the new norm...
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godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Working from home had a positive impact on my performance. Not everybody needs to be supervised or is innately lazy. In fact, I work without almost without supervision. My job requires a lot of research and experimentation, and I don’t need to report on my progress sometimes for weeks at a time. I do miss being surrounded by very bright people whom I could just talk to randomly during lunch though.
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BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Been WFH since March of last year, only having to head in on rare extreme occasions. It's so much better. For tech jobs it really feels like this is how it should have been years ago. Dedicated offices, cubicle farms, all the money and time and effort spent to maintain them, all feel so pointless and wasteful after even just a week of working from home.
The move to WFH has also had the pleasant side effect of showing how many middle managers were filling essentially worthless roles. Microsoft Teams and company-provided computers/laptops/devices replaced them in no time. It's funny to look at the company org chart now and seeing the ten or twelve useless middle managers everyone hated are all gone now. lol. And things are operating better now without them.
Also, everyone seems more productive and not having to waste time on a commute, back and forth, and everything that entails means people aren't angry any longer when they may have to pitch in some time afterhours to push projects over the finish line. When everyone suddenly has six or seven more hours a week to be productive rather than sitting in a car/train/whatever, no one minds having to login at 8PM on the rare night to pitch in.
The move to WFH has also had the pleasant side effect of showing how many middle managers were filling essentially worthless roles. Microsoft Teams and company-provided computers/laptops/devices replaced them in no time. It's funny to look at the company org chart now and seeing the ten or twelve useless middle managers everyone hated are all gone now. lol. And things are operating better now without them.
Also, everyone seems more productive and not having to waste time on a commute, back and forth, and everything that entails means people aren't angry any longer when they may have to pitch in some time afterhours to push projects over the finish line. When everyone suddenly has six or seven more hours a week to be productive rather than sitting in a car/train/whatever, no one minds having to login at 8PM on the rare night to pitch in.
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FunkMiller
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p_xavier
Authorized Fister
Same, I now weight 165 down from 198.Got fitter instead because more time for exercise
Cyberpunkd
Member
WFH is a godsend for parents, even that simple 1 hour a day you can do laundry, do shopping, etc. while kids are not there helps tremendously.
Aesius
Member
There's also a lot of "I had to do it, so you should, too" mentality going around.
My brother is in the car business and stupid hours are mandatory, even though almost everyone hates it. Does everyone on a car lot, including managers, need to work 10-12 hour days? No. But they all do and did when coming up, so everyone else needs to. The first domino simply won't fall, so it never changes.
Sybrix
Member
I've been working from home since March 2020.
I really like working from home, for the following reasons:
1. I have my own house
2. My partner only WFH one day a week so i have house to myself most of the time
3. I have my own office with my own desktop PC and work laptop
4. I have lots of space and freedom
5. Dont have to commute
However there are downsides:
1. I do miss the ease of talking to colleagues immediately about things
2. Ease of sharing ideas
3. Some days you want to work with others rather than alone
To combat the above i arrange monthly face to face team meetings at our office
I do understand why some people would hate WFH, we have alot of graduates and interns at our place, lots lives in rooms in shared houses and dont have the space required, if that was me i would hate it.
I really like working from home, for the following reasons:
1. I have my own house
2. My partner only WFH one day a week so i have house to myself most of the time
3. I have my own office with my own desktop PC and work laptop
4. I have lots of space and freedom
5. Dont have to commute
However there are downsides:
1. I do miss the ease of talking to colleagues immediately about things
2. Ease of sharing ideas
3. Some days you want to work with others rather than alone
To combat the above i arrange monthly face to face team meetings at our office
I do understand why some people would hate WFH, we have alot of graduates and interns at our place, lots lives in rooms in shared houses and dont have the space required, if that was me i would hate it.
I collect VHS tapes
Member
Between cooking at home and having a home gym I’m in the best shape I’ve been in years
I wouldn’t be surprised if people on average are physically healthier
chromhound
Member
the company i work for are too cheap for us to work from home...
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Our office is open now but staff have been given the choice. I still do a couple of days a week normally a Monday and Tuesday.
InfiniteCombo
Banned
A hybrid approach like this I think would work best.
WFH benefits:
+ No commute and all associated benefits
+ No eating out as much/at all
+ Lots of personal space
+ Minimized office distractions (chit chat, etc)
+ Optimized work setup (monitor, keyboard, etc)
WFH drawbacks:
- Lots more meetings on the schedule
- Lots more emails in your inbox
- Potential communication issues (laggy comm, people "stepping on each other" when trying to speak, people's pets/kids/etc making noise in the background, etc)
- Reduced efficiency from not being able to quickly and easily demonstrate concepts, especially those that involve diagrams/pictures/etc
- Reduced camaraderie and team "bond" from not seeing your colleagues in person
So, it's a balance. Again those benefits/drawbacks are from my anecdotal observations, I'm not a sociologist and haven't done any scientific studies or polls on this
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I think I prefer a split schedule to avoid the drawbacks of going 100% either way. I like having all the freedom of working from home, but office time is still valuable for various reasons like communicating with coworkers, and my new office is swanky as fuck so it seems a waste to let it sit empty too much.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
More social isolation for humans? What could go wrong?
V1LÆM
Gold Member
i think it's great for the environment. if you can work from home then it should be an option.
ain't no chance of my job working from home. i work in a hospital so yeah. still got up every day to go to work during the pandemic. i don't think i could cope sitting about the house all day to be honest. getting up at 3AM sucks but it's good to get out the house. i love walking to work in the morning. gives me time to wake up properly, get excercise, and catch up on podcasts/audiobooks.
the people in offices still hasn't got anywhere near pre pandemic. the offices are super quiet still. it used to be so damn busy but offices are sitting empty most of the time. in the long term i wouldn't be surprised if the office space was converted to more doctor consultant rooms. there are 3 large offices but right now you could easily get everyone into just the one office. that's a shit load of empty space up for grabs.
ain't no chance of my job working from home. i work in a hospital so yeah. still got up every day to go to work during the pandemic. i don't think i could cope sitting about the house all day to be honest. getting up at 3AM sucks but it's good to get out the house. i love walking to work in the morning. gives me time to wake up properly, get excercise, and catch up on podcasts/audiobooks.
the people in offices still hasn't got anywhere near pre pandemic. the offices are super quiet still. it used to be so damn busy but offices are sitting empty most of the time. in the long term i wouldn't be surprised if the office space was converted to more doctor consultant rooms. there are 3 large offices but right now you could easily get everyone into just the one office. that's a shit load of empty space up for grabs.
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Hari Seldon
Member
Whether I am in the office or at home, I do my work from a VDI and half my team is across the country anyway.
InfiniteCombo
Banned
One of the drawbacks I forgot to mention for the WFH option is that there's (even) less separation of work and personal time.
I've routinely been in situations with people scheduling meetings at the lunch hour and as late as 5:30 or 6 PM. Prior to Covid, for the most part the lunch hour (roughly 12 PM to 1 PM) was a sacred hour, no one scheduled meetings at that time. And also no one scheduled meetings later than 4 PM.
But once people started working from home in larger numbers, it seems that bosses and regular colleagues alike started taking one's time for granted, almost beyond what is reasonable.
I've routinely been in situations with people scheduling meetings at the lunch hour and as late as 5:30 or 6 PM. Prior to Covid, for the most part the lunch hour (roughly 12 PM to 1 PM) was a sacred hour, no one scheduled meetings at that time. And also no one scheduled meetings later than 4 PM.
But once people started working from home in larger numbers, it seems that bosses and regular colleagues alike started taking one's time for granted, almost beyond what is reasonable.
I collect VHS tapes
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At my job any over time becomes comp time so this rarely ever happens. If it does, I just get comp time so it’s not the end of the world.
Celcius
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I'm a software developer and have been working from home since March 2020. I've come to really enjoying working from home, wearing my pajamas all day, not having to drive to the office, being able to do tasks at home when needed like starting the washing machine or something, and stuff like that.
I don't plan to ever go back if I can help it.
I don't plan to ever go back if I can help it.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I’ve been WFH since March of 2020. We go back in Jan on a part time basis (8 days per month). I travel a lot for work & thankfully travel counts as in office. So really I shouldn’t have to go in much. All depends on how much time I want to spend on the road.
I am far more productive at home. In the office I get a visitor to my desk constantly. I work on confidential stuff too so I have to book a conf room anytime I need to discuss projects, which is about 50% of the time. At home I can take calls and no interruptions.
I am far more productive at home. In the office I get a visitor to my desk constantly. I work on confidential stuff too so I have to book a conf room anytime I need to discuss projects, which is about 50% of the time. At home I can take calls and no interruptions.
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