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I will always prefer to work from home
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Re: I will always prefer to work from home
#12Yes great points. But most WFH advocates forget to talk about juniors or people who are just starting their careers or people who just cannot wfh effectively. The article talks about Management's arguments against WFH but fails to mention any of the points I mentioned. The best solution in my opinion is hybrid especially for juniors and I will die on this hill.
Juniors are hyper-online, accustomed to COVID classes etc. Maybe it is methods of training that need to shift.
Re: I will always prefer to work from home
#13Yes great points. But most WFH advocates forget to talk about juniors or people who are just starting their careers or people who just cannot wfh effectively. The article talks about Management's arguments against WFH but fails to mention any of the points I mentioned. The best solution in my opinion is hybrid especially for juniors and I will die on this hill.
Not sure why you can't just teach juniors how to work from home effectively, just how you teach them how to do their job. It's all part of the same thing. I've certainly helped juniors over a video call just as effectively as being next to them physically. In one case I point a finger on their screen, in another I point my mouse cursor on their screen.
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#14Can we have a quick roundup on where each of the faangs and household names are on going back to the office?
Can report that Spotify is firmly work-from-anywhere and wouldn’t have place for everyone if they went back on that. People sometimes work from exotic locations and it’s normal to not having met teammates in person etc. Productivity is generally high and not adversely affected.
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#15I like to go into the office for the social interaction, but I also like working from home one day a week.
From the article, the con about being interrupted while working in the office applies equally to WFH. Your train of thought can be just as much derailed by a Slack/Teams message as by a colleague wandering by your cubicle.
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#16I did contracting for Deere & Co, because of how close they are to my home, they requested I be on site.
Wanting to be a team player I agreed, it was only a 3 hour round trip, they even agreed to pay me for the commute. My time started the second I left my house and didn't stop until I got home.
But here's the thing. The days I was on site, I sat in my own cubicle and didn't converse with any of my colleagues except over Teams, and then when we had a meeting we all filed into a meeting room, where we got on a video call with the teams in India.
None of my reason for being on site mattered outside of them being able to claim I was there in the office.
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#17I understand why these get posted. But not everyone is in the same situation as the author. I can bike to work, I'm extroverted, and I like free coffee. So I go into the office 2-3 days a week by choice. I have no on-site requirement. I also get quite depressed in winter working in my cold basement office with a space heater :( But that's just me. And I don't feel like I should force my WFH opinion on anyone else.
> But that's just me. And I don't feel like I should force my WFH opinion on anyone else.
The problem is that company management often does force their WFH opinion on everyone else.
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#18Don’t forget about the often critical, but almost never mentioned directly, argument for returning to the cubicle: office spaces are essentially an investment, which may very well go down in value when the general way of thinking becomes “WFH is better, offices are obsolete”.
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#19Yes great points. But most WFH advocates forget to talk about juniors or people who are just starting their careers or people who just cannot wfh effectively. The article talks about Management's arguments against WFH but fails to mention any of the points I mentioned. The best solution in my opinion is hybrid especially for juniors and I will die on this hill.
Not sure why you can't just teach juniors how to work from home effectively, just how you teach them how to do their job. It's all part of the same thing. I've certainly helped juniors over a video call just as effectively as being next to them physically. In one case I point a finger on their screen, in another I point my mouse cursor on their screen.
It's much harder. We are social animals on a whole. Nothing beats in person interactions. I am not against remote work btw.
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#20If someone were to ask me why I prefer WFH, my answer would be: bc I fucking feel like it.
I am not obligated to justify my preferences to anyone. Ever.