Ask HN: Who's getting pulled back into the office?
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Re: Ask HN: Who's getting pulled back into the office?
#22Canada here: Not yet back in the office but plan is 2 days a week. Personally it seems like the worst of both worlds.
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#23There are a number of problems with WfH. There's no work community or camaraderie at home . Doggo should count. Kittah jumping on the keyboard is just using you for food and grooming. There's no grabbing lunches. There's no visiting X down the hall. No grabbing a beer after work. Boss G, H, or J can't see you around. Colleagues M, N, P, and Q don't have a sense of your performance or amount of work that happens far a…
> typing away by yourself like a writer, occasionally seeing "holograms" of other people on screens, or taking calls like you're working a call center You say this like it's a bad thing .
Re: Ask HN: Who's getting pulled back into the office?
#24I run a consulting business and have found people have started to request in-person meetings. I tell them Zoom is more efficient (which it is) and they agree.
Re: Ask HN: Who's getting pulled back into the office?
#25Canada here: Not yet back in the office but plan is 2 days a week. Personally it seems like the worst of both worlds.
Why is that?
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#26Re: Ask HN: Who's getting pulled back into the office?
#27The company I worked for (a consultancy) started touting a “hybrid working model” (I.e. we’ll need you in the office more and more as we see fit) so I quit and got a full-remote job with another company who are based as far from me as possible (so even if they decide to vary my contract and go office based I’m well outside the area they could reasonably expect me to travel). I’ll never go back to commuting.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that?
For us it was supposed to be a rotation, with people in on different days so you're still doing all your meetings on Zoom but now you need to drive an hour to do it.
Re: Ask HN: Who's getting pulled back into the office?
#29There are a number of problems with WfH. There's no work community or camaraderie at home . Doggo should count. Kittah jumping on the keyboard is just using you for food and grooming. There's no grabbing lunches. There's no visiting X down the hall. No grabbing a beer after work. Boss G, H, or J can't see you around. Colleagues M, N, P, and Q don't have a sense of your performance or amount of work that happens far a…