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The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

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Re: The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

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Post by aerique »

musicale wrote: post #10
ravedave5 wrote: post #5

Same experience as me, went in nobody was there. Spent day doing the exact same thing as at home with a different view and extra 50 minutes of driving. Did not go in again.

It sounds like the commute is a big part of it. My perfect commute would probably be a 10 minute bicycle ride, or maybe a short train ride.

I've got a 35 - 45 minute bicycle ride which makes it a nice workout.

I really felt it when we started working from home during corona and I was sitting on the couch just eating chips and ice cream.

Re: The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

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Post by byefruit »

musicale wrote: post #10
ravedave5 wrote: post #5

Same experience as me, went in nobody was there. Spent day doing the exact same thing as at home with a different view and extra 50 minutes of driving. Did not go in again.

It sounds like the commute is a big part of it. My perfect commute would probably be a 10 minute bicycle ride, or maybe a short train ride.

I do the 10-15 minute cycle and it is excellent. Have been considering throwing in the occasional walking day too.

Re: The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

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Post by niek_pas »

byefruit wrote: post #12
musicale wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like the commute is a big part of it. My perfect commute would probably be a 10 minute bicycle ride, or maybe a short train ride.

I do the 10-15 minute cycle and it is excellent. Have been considering throwing in the occasional walking day too.

That's what I did when I had a 10-minute cycle. A 25-minute minute walk gave me a chance to, depending on the morning, either listen to a podcast or shake off the morning grogginess before heading in to work.

Re: The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

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Post by lanstin »

aerique wrote: post #11
musicale wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like the commute is a big part of it. My perfect commute would probably be a 10 minute bicycle ride, or maybe a short train ride.

I've got a 35 - 45 minute bicycle ride which makes it a nice workout. I really felt it when we started working from home during corona and I was sitting on the couch just eating chips and ice cream.

Totally the same for me. I have started going into work one day a week at my own prompting just to get some bike commute in (I just don’t like biking in circles unless there’s some mileage away from the city). No one else is there but I have seen a few old friends in the tiny remnants of the cafeteria. And I sit all alone up in the top floor where it used to be execs so I have an awesome view of the mountains and so on. And the network bandwidth is much nicer than my wifi.

Re: The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

So far I've managed to resist coming in to the office for pointless reasons.

Our team was already split between the US and UK, and we tend to work outside of our team across multiple projects with people all over the world. So all meetings were always video calls even pre-pandemic.

Some senior managers want us to be in the office 20% of the time to get that nebulous "collaboration" thing... Which literally never happened in person anyway. On the other hand, my managers have said we shouldn't come in unless there is an actual reason to do so.

Fingers crossed sanity prevails...

Re: The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga »

aerique wrote: post #11
musicale wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like the commute is a big part of it. My perfect commute would probably be a 10 minute bicycle ride, or maybe a short train ride.

I've got a 35 - 45 minute bicycle ride which makes it a nice workout. I really felt it when we started working from home during corona and I was sitting on the couch just eating chips and ice cream.

I was in the same situation. In the end I solved the problem by cycling the same amount of kilometers each morning and evening but in a different direction (and nicer surroundings - without having to go along the street).

Re: The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

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Post by gonzo41 »

I go into the office, and everyone just works, no one talks. Even the people that really wanted to be back in the office don't chat. So I spend a day in silence, rather than a day at home taking coffee breaks in the yard with my dog.

I'm going with a 7/3 split, favoring WFH. If it rains that ratio can change.

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