Give me my own, nice, decently-sized, windowed office, and I will come to work every day. That is the office I have at home. I like going to the office, as long as the office is nice. Many are not nice.
Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?
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Thats lucky for you but you must be aware of how uncharacteristic that is. When you get a new job that commute disappears unless the new job is close to the old job or you up and move.
You are wrong. Look up what average commute time is in US. 40+ minute commutes are uncharacteristic, except for a small fraction of Americans who live in a handful of metros.
> Look up what average commute time is in US. 40+ minute commutes are uncharacteristic
Emphasis mine. Average is not minimum. Those are two entirely different concepts.
I'm not wrong about my commute time, it's legitimately roughly 5 minutes. Since nobody is suggesting a lower commute time for WFO, I'd say that's probably a minimum. I totally agree the average is closer to 40ish minutes, but minimum is not average.
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Noise canceling headphones don't do anything against human voices, which is the noise problem in open offices.
I have a pair of Sony wh-1000xm3 and wh-1000xm5 and they definitely block out human voices, for me at least.
they may reduce it to some extent, but not completely block it.
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#825Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a pair of Sony wh-1000xm3 and wh-1000xm5 and they definitely block out human voices, for me at least.
they may reduce it to some extent, but not completely block it.
As it was a statement of my experience, I will reiterate it to make it clearer--they do block outside voices for me, completely.
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#826I absolutely agree with you.
I would take a _significant_ pay cut to work in an office again. But around here, those jobs effectively don't exist anymore.
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#827Oh my - I've been waiting to hear this since forever, and you couldn't have said it better. I feel exactly the same way, and I feel like specially the younger tech workers are losing a big chunk of what it means to build work relationships (which are some of the best), and to connect with people. I don't know how to fix it as like you said, most people will scream when you mention work from office/
> younger tech workers are losing a big chunk of what it means to build work relationships (which are some of the best) I dont want to judge but its really hard not to if you see work relationships as some of the best relationships available. They are absolutely relationships that are formed from forced repeated interaction. Maybe I have had a few co workers who I would have naturally become friends with outside of w…
That's... how people make friends.
Did you have friends in school? Same thing.
Neighbors? Same thing.
Soldiers that fought together and keep in touch after the war? Same thing.
Befriend someone you run into at the gym? Same thing.
Something has to bring you together. Might as well be work.
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but where is the connection between investing yourself into your job and going in to the office? That assumes that you can't work hard from home, which I don't believe to be true.
> That assumes that you can't work hard from home, which I don't believe to be true. Where's the analysis of the job to see if it can really be performed ideally remotely. Also, "hard" is a straw man. As a boss I want output not effort and part of being near coworkers is to avoid getting stuck and wasting resources. > where is the connection between investing yourself into your job and going in to the office If I was…
sending a slack message saying "hey, i'm stuck" is really not that difficult.
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#829Earlier quoted context omitted.
Noise canceling headphones don't do anything against human voices, which is the noise problem in open offices.
Get some of the muffler things for building sites. One of my previous workspaces had a couple of these siting around.
A colleague of mine used them at a previous job.
I started wearing them too because they work well but also as a passive aggressive FU to whoever designed these open office floor plans (the ear protectors are usually bright colors like yellow so there is no mistaking them for headphones)
We’re treated like assembly line workers in more and more companies anyway so why not also start wearing the PPE that goes with it?
Re: Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?
#830You can like whatever you want. It's not controverisal - it's personal. People won't necessarily agree on what is good and that's fine.