When I was single: work from home.
Now that I'm not: work from office.
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#192Working from home was a lot harder than from office in many ways.
The most obvious part was becoming my own office manager, somewhat stay motivated and focused, adapting the new work rythmes, getting clues about how coworkers are doing etc.
Then scheduling that with family and maintaining the home on the private side.
But it is really worth it. Mental health has improved a lot, even as objectively I’m doing longer days in total. Getting to interact a lot more with my family is a big part of it. It also means better understanding how the day goes for them, instead of the end of the day self-report at the dining table we were used to.
Work quality improved, there’s just way less “doing random stuff to look busy”.
Social life went way down, but the parts that stayed are also way more meaningful.
My hope is we see the light at the end of the “how do you socialize remotely ?” tunnel and find a middle ground between the current situation and the having everyone commute/wander in the city.
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#193One consideration that I don’t see covered here much (among the many other considerations often mentioned) when discussing WFH vs. WFO is whether you live with others.
I’m married and have two (teenage) children and have been working from home 100% for (going on) 8 years, and have very little issues with feeling alone.
Obviously if I lived alone, it would be a different story, and I would likely prefer going back to the office.
It seems like we constantly discuss and compare WFH and WFO without really discussing the difference living with others makes, especially if you have older children (where “older” = are mostly self-sufficient, which I consider about 10+, give or take).
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#194At the start of the pandemic, I knew I would miss working with people in person, but thought I would be totally great with WFH. Now, I know that I badly need some amount of in-person time with my coworkers on a weekly basis, or I go crazy. It's a motivational thing for me. I thrive on solving problems for and with other people, and there's an "out of sight, out of mind" effect for me over zoom. It's just harder for m…
But man, I miss people.
Although, it's doubly tough when things aren't good at home. Because during those times, the office provided some solace. But overall it's been positive.
Have you gotten at least some kind of positive tradeoff in terms of more friends+family time, exercise, etc?
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#195At the start of the pandemic, I knew I would miss working with people in person, but thought I would be totally great with WFH. Now, I know that I badly need some amount of in-person time with my coworkers on a weekly basis, or I go crazy. It's a motivational thing for me. I thrive on solving problems for and with other people, and there's an "out of sight, out of mind" effect for me over zoom. It's just harder for m…
This was my opinion back in 2020, moved to another house with other neighbors, now it's the other way around.
Now I almost long to get off work and do some choirs outside instead.
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#196I live in a small rural village, looking out over a cattle pasture, which itself is against the backdrop of national park - a long mountain range covered in forest.
Now in my ideal world this village would also have lots of amazing companies with cool offices that pay lots of money.
But that's not going to happen. So even though I do miss in-person stuff, I'll take the peace and quiet and not having to commute.
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#197We went to temporary work from home at the beginning of the pandemic. Well it's been 2 years now. I have hated every minute of it. I used to have a 15 minute commute which was a nice bit of time to get my thoughts in order. Now I roll out of bed when my alarm goes off and do daily stand-up on zoom in my home office literally 5 minutes later. My brain is literally still asleep. I miss people, I miss spontaneous intera…
>Now I roll out of bed when my alarm goes off and do daily stand-up on zoom in my home office literally 5 minutes later. My brain is literally still asleep.
You can fix this yourself, incredibly easily. Personally I have never changed my alarm clock based on if I'm WFH.
My wife is happy to pop in her headphones if I ask her to while I'm working.
I keep scheduled breaks. If I decide in the morning that the dirty dishes are bothering me then I might do them on my lunch break or when I "get home". And to be fair, if you heard a loud bang at your office anyone would go check it out immediately, no difference at home.
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#198Regular social events in-person with colleagues is a must. But all my actual work can continue to be from home.
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#199As a single guy, I prefer work from office. I'm sure if I was married with kids, I would prefer just the opposite.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if a candidate said that, how would that influence your hiring decision?
Personally - I'd not hire that person. Sounds like they're completely inflexible and unable to adapt to constantly changing environments. Maybe really good for maintenance work or something but if you do startups, work on growing products, do major feature work that has a lot of back and forth, etc. Very likely to not do well at any of the jobs I've had.
Yeah I've never done any kind of software engineering work that wasn't highly collaborative.
Maybe really good for maintenance work