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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.
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.
Going to an office to write software is absolutely insane. I like going on fridays and leaving early to drink beer with coworkers.
The absolute absurdity of sitting in an open office, and pretending to program the full 9-5. That's just not how work like this happens. Why do companies pay their developers high salaries, but then tie one hand behind their backs like that. For me? Never again.
I like the office and am currently working in the office but I just... get up and leave whenever I want. Come back whenever I want. No need to pretend to work 9-5.
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.
Open concept offices are awful. As someone who is more vulnerable to interruptions than most, being able to control my work environment is a godsend. Everyone is different, but my ideal work environment is library quiet. No music and certainly no overheard conversations or people constantly walking past. I’ve never worked in an office that was willing to provide such an environment, but I have it at home.
I mostly just like having the division between work and home: I work at the office, I don't work at home. I think my ideal work location would be an office in town, but not in my company's building.
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.
We're about to adopt the same hybrid schedule. It's a good compromise from what it was before the pandemic (always in office).
Unless the hybrid schedule is optional, expect to be back full time in under a year! You'll know you're about to go back when your managers manager has an all hands and mentions something about people being confused or not knowing when their team will be in the office.
They'll manufacture consent by doing a bunch of surveys that they claim people want to go back.
Then 3 months later they'll mandate teams return to work full time (with a flex alternating friday off or something) for 'team cohesion'.
You can actually be a change management consultant. It's big money.
My company is currently planning on doing 40% in the office, 60% remote, however with everyone picking their own schedule heading into the office for 2 days a week seems stupid if I'm just going to be on Microsoft Teams there.
Back when I started working solo around 10 years ago, I remember it wasn't easy and it took me a long time to find out how to do it right (e.g. things like "you still need to decide what your working hours are", or "you need self discipline" etc.).
Back then, I remember having a hard time and I could not wait to get back to an office - which I did around 2015.
But this second time around, I knew what to expect and I was able to adapt well from the start. Plus I have awesome coworkers and boss, that makes things a lot easier. We do things like virtually hang out once a week to play games etc. - that helps with not feeling lonely.
EDIT: but the biggest difference is probably that I now have a family. Back then I had flatmates, but I guess it's not the same.
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