In a year from now if the world has returned to "normal", do you see yourself working from home or an office, and do you have any say in the matter?
When things are back to normal, will you be working from home or in an office?
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I quite enjoy working from home, I'm more productive and I don't waste time on daily commuting and I get to spent more time with my family.
Being able to go to an office once in a while is nice because of all of the social interactions but in the long run I prefer working from home.
Same.
This embodies my feelings perfectly 🤗
This so sums up how I feel.
I'm really missing the interactions that happen in an office but I don't feel like jumping the gun on returning to an office - the risk just isn't worth it. I foresee remote for at least the next year :(
I've been lucky to always have had a day or two from home a week in my dev jobs, but post-pandemic I'm looking to have a minimum three days from home per week.
I've come to really value some aspects of working from home - some time for mindful yoga on my lunch break, and just generally being free to really enjoy my home.
Plus more time with dog so I mean how could I tell her I'm going back 5 days a week 😂
Dog thinking mabye after 10 sec I leave home -- He has been gone for a long time and what if he never came back😍❤
The hardest part of isolation for me has been not spending time with others and struggling to find a boundary to switch on/off from work since the bedroom has also become the office.
Our company always supported remote work so I had a nice balance of home-to-office days, but going zero contact hours has been surprisingly tough. Video calling is no replacement for time with work friends either.
It may be different story once the lifestyle goes back to normal outside of work, but for now it is pretty grim to reflect on!
If you have issues with the on/off part, It's good practice to set up a space dedicated to work only. If you have a laptop that means moving out of spaces you relax in. If you don't have the option of an extra work room, move to a quiet cafe to get your work done.
Dennis, I've had the option to work from home for decades and found that I prefer to exercise the option to hang out with friends while getting the work done. I tried to share that perspective before Covid19 in this ... medium.com/@frankfont123/the-perfe...
I seemed to manage to keep my office position throughout. I think that these sorts of things will be determined unfortunately on how each company and other environment heeds the media and whether or not they do. I, for myself, have stopped.
The company I currently work for have actually decided to shut down the office and operate strictly as a distributed team. We are a small bunch, and adapted to the remote dynamic so well that no one sees the sense in having a work setting to go back and forth to anymore.
We’re working from the office. 1,500 people get infected by covid-19 daily. I can die. That doesn’t matter to me. But I’m afraid because of my dad and mom.
Btw, I think my boss didn’t trust us. During the COVID-19, I completed 10 projects by myself.
Idk, why his thoughts like that.
That's terrible and horrible and not very safe.
Exactly. But they don't want to believe this COVID really dangerous.
Wow! I find it hard to believe.
Sorry about that. Hopefully your boss will transition to have you guys work from home and maybe be at work 1-3 days/week.
I think eventually I will transition back to the office, but I think my company will stay flexible and remote friendly post COVID. I’m not sure if the transition back to the office will actually happen next year though, I anticipate it could be longer, depending on when a vaccine or effective treatment is readily available.
In my ideal world I would take a hybrid approach work from home or the office depending on the day. But before remote work could be truly ideal for me I need to move into a different apartment. I don’t have enough space here to setup an office that isn’t just the corner of my bedroom.
I'm hoping they'll let me work from home (despite living literally across the street from work). I find there are fewer distractions compared to an open-plan floor (you can see everyone moving about, hear them chatting or on the phone, etc.) I find I'm more relaxed when at home and get more done during the day. Hell, if they give us the option of permanent teleworking and that we don't have to live in the area, I might even consider moving to a place with a lower cost of living because CoL is becoming insane around here.
Oh man, I hope that I can work a big chunk from home. I really like it. I am also able to spend way more time with my newborn baby (during work) and my commuting time is reduced. One or two days at the office is nice, but I hope I can start working from home for atleast three days a week.
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