Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by stickyricky » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:20 AM UTC

I'm a social person. I vastly prefer working from home. I've been doing so for the past 8 years. My work days are short. My time with family, hobbies, and friends is long, peaceful, and uninterrupted.

Working in a remote first organization is better. No asses to kiss. Just results. And ample amounts of free time.

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by redman25 » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:21 AM UTC

Work from home but head into the office once or twice per week. I’m liking the mix of comfort at home without losing connection with colleagues.

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by ketzo » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:21 AM UTC

At the start of the pandemic, I knew I would miss working with people in person, but thought I would be totally great with WFH.

Now, I know that I badly need some amount of in-person time with my coworkers on a weekly basis, or I go crazy.

It's a motivational thing for me. I thrive on solving problems for and with other people, and there's an "out of sight, out of mind" effect for me over zoom. It's just harder for me to get my brain going.

I wish I were better at WFH - maybe with the right type of work I would be. I love everything else about it! My home office setup is awesome, I always hated commuting, I love the flexibility of doing chores during the day or getting some work done at 11pm because I don't feel like sleeping.

But man, I miss people.

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by ianai » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:22 AM UTC

I would strongly prefer WFH or at least a hybrid. But I’m more than happy to work from the office if it’s a competitive advantage in the common era.

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by NicoJuicy » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:22 AM UTC

For me it's the same. Perhaps a bit of preference to working from the office ( I'm also nearby).

But I've noticed that our jr programmers haven't improved since 2 years ago.

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by zamadatix » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:23 AM UTC

Work from home but within reasonable driving distance (2 hours) for a day or two in person event (usually some portion work oriented but mostly socializing focused) every month or two with folks in similar situations. I like this balance much better than my previous job where I was work from home but never got to meet everyone because it was a large company and we were all over the country. There was still ~weekly mix of getting together with local folks at the regional office but looking back it still seemed more often than I like. That said I like each much better than at the job prior to that where they had an aversion to people not being in their office chairs every day. All 3 jobs were in the same field and closely related outside of seniority.

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by bee_rider » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:23 AM UTC

twalichiewicz wrote: post #8

I think my views have changed over the course of the pandemic— originally I was thrilled by not having to commute, being comfortable, having an easy way to take a break. Now in 2022 it sort of feels like living at the office, and the lack of separation between the two can be annoying. The flexibility to pick when I want “intense focus” time at the office has been working really well for me. (Thank goodness my company…

Yeah. I'm working from home. I'm loving the convenience and the ability to use, for example, my favorite keyboard. But working in my bedroom and livingroom has kind of ruined those rooms for me. I think I'd enjoy it much more if I had a separate home office room to go to.

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by dleslie » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:23 AM UTC

Working from home means I get to see my wife and children for more hours of the day. It also means that I get to choose when I will allow myself to be interrupted, rather than sitting in an open concept office and being _continually_ interrupted.

I've been working from home for over six years. I never want to return to the office. I will change careers before I return to a software development office.

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by irrational » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:23 AM UTC

I worked professionally in an office from 1998 to 2020 and remote from March 2020 till now. There is absolutely no comparison. Working from home is so much better than working in an office that I will quit any job that wants me to work in an office from here on out. Fortunately my current company (a Fortune 100 company) is saying that at some point everyone will have to come back to the office T-TH, except for IT/programmers/developers.

Re: Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

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Post by interpol_p » Mon, Feb 07, 2022, 3:24 AM UTC

toomanydoubts wrote: post #6

Going to an office to write software is absolutely insane. I like going on fridays and leaving early to drink beer with coworkers.

Agree. I go in once a week to pick up a shared lunch for everybody and we hang out and play some board games