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Agree on all points in the article. One of the most underrated features of WFH is my own private bathroom. This is something I would never have at the office.
Housing costs are very high. If I could live 10 minutes from an office I’d go all the time. But most live much farther, which puts an untenable strain on them (and the environment, infrastructure, etc!)
Of course the C-suite class probably DOES live 10 minutes from an office. They can afford to, unlike most employees.
If you want RTO build more dense housing near where offices are located. And build solid transit and other means of getting to an office quickly.
> Don’t talk to me about collaboration when I sometimes have to turn off slack to be able to hear myself think.
Why not communicate to the people that interrupt that they should not come to your cubicle to ask their questions, and should send you a Slack message with their question instead?
And then, if you are deep into something and you don't want to be disturbed, you can mute your slack notifications.
It feels to me, from the tone of the post, that the writer prefers WFH because it allows them to side-step issues that they could have resolved with communication. Of course this doesn't apply to the practical issues (time lost commuting, ...)
I 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…
*on site :)
Agree on all points in the article. One of the most underrated features of WFH is my own private bathroom. This is something I would never have at the office.
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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.
Also, I'm not sure of newer generations where you're from, but here what I see is less and less want from people to have in-person conversations. Newer generations have everything done remotely. Ordering food, socializing (online video games, etc), that in-person conversations often are intimating to them. Which begs the question, have the people who say juniors need in-person help actually asked juniors what they would like? Or is it more that _you_ are more comfortable _teaching_ in-person, in which case again, the problem seems to be you, not the juniors.
All-in-all, I'm just not seeing the difficulties people seem to say they have. Just my $0.02.
Some of these issues would go away if the author used headphones and the office used an open floor plan instead of cubicles.
A team composed of 4 people, where one’s in SF, another in NYC, etc is having a very different experience from one where all 4 people are all collocated.
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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.
I feel these discussions always go the same way. Working at an office sucks because of some combination of {long commute, open office plan, team not being there}. I quite like going to the office myself because my situation is the opposite: I bike to work, where I have my own office, and my team likes to come in too. Hating the office is totally justifiable given that my setup isn't common; most people are forced to…
I worked at a place years back that was expanding; bought a second building - 2 stories. Downstairs had semi-open cubicles, and a wall of private office spaces (8 IIRC). All empty. Cubes were full. I was in the other building, told we were needing to move over the next couple months. I asked for one of the private spaces. They weren't really that big, and had no natural light, but... they did have a door. I'd been wr…
But then they knocked all the walls down and put in rows of desks because they could cram more people in that way. Within a year probably 25% of our development staff walked.