Boooooooo
I want to be in the office only 1-2x a week and WFH the rest.
Current amazon employee who started remote during the pandemic.
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#22I have been working from home for 10 years. My wife recently had a baby and I wish I had an office to go to...
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#24am i the only person excited about this (i dont work at amazon) im pretty burned out on wfh
I'm definitely burned out on wfh for a number of reasons.
Mainly, my productivity has gone through the floor. I have a significantly harder time focusing at home. Home is supposed to be my safe space where I don't have to worry too much about external things, but now my job has been brought in and I still really haven't figured it out. Surrounded by all the distractions I've accumulated. Maybe I have ADD, who knows. Maybe I should talk to someone.
I understand that there are people who are the opposite because they'd rather be with their families or not face an awful commute. I chose to live a block from the office to avoid that. Having a clear divide between work and play space was working for me.
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#25I have been working from home for 10 years. My wife recently had a baby and I wish I had an office to go to...
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#26Congrats. Who is the father?
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#27I plan to remain in an home office centric culture as my baseline after pandemic.
I'm not optimistic about my chances remaining in home office.
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#28If companies had to pay even part of the externalities of commuting they'd have stopped this antiquated modus operandi long ago. As it stands I feel like we're going to have to wait until all Silent Generation/Boomers retire before we can see real progressive change in this area. Honestly it really speaks to poor management in general. If your only measure for project progress is "butts in seats," then you have no id…
It seems like that externality would be relatively straightforward to identify and de-incentivize. Just change the rules to allow workers to expense travel to their regular reporting location and then tax companies based on the total number above a certain floor.
It's more than just travel, it's also the cost of owning and maintaining a vehicle, the space to park it both at home and at work, the cost of insuring a vehicle.
Or the cost of a bus pass/transit at least. But the time cost of transit is generally higher than the time cost of commuting by car. And the time cost of commuting in general is pretty high and will never, ever show up on an expense report.
It's silly how much of our lives we give up for a full time job and kind of a lot of it isn't compensated in any way.
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#30am i the only person excited about this (i dont work at amazon) im pretty burned out on wfh
> am i the only person excited about this
If they'd announced people could optionally return to the office, then yeah maybe be excited about it.
But are you excited they're going to force your co-workers to return even if they don't want to? Why?