I’ve never had a WFH job and I generally don’t think I’d personally want/be successful with one. My sister is fully remote and she actually hates it, but I think its more the job she doesn’t like than the WFH aspect. She says its lonely and isolating on top of disliking her daily tasks. I’m not anti WFH for others at all, to absolutely clear.
Been 100% WFH for 4ish years now, absolutely do not want to go back. It’s no different than working in the office during covid really, and this way I don’t have a commute longer than it takes me to walk up a flight of stairs
Totally love WFH. I can hang out with my dog while working, get laundry done on breaks, and no commute leaves way more free time in my life. I would never go back to working in an office unless I was in dire straights.
I’m liking it, in moderation. Just rolling out of bed, turning on my computer and making coffee on company time right away is very time efficient. It’s also nice that I can work in peace and ignore coworkers whenever I need to.
The downside is that it’s pretty annoying to collaborate on things, especially if it’s with more than one person at a time. Gotta schedule a meeting, even if in person it would just be a thing of walking over and talking to them for 5mins.
My ideal mix is 4 days wfh : 1 day in-office. I get all the talking out of the way on that one day (plus it’s enough socialization for the whole week) and the rest I just exist in peace.
Yes. Im way more efficient at home. Less offfice bullshit.
No commute or shitty weather.
Roll out of bed and online in seconds, just open the laptop lid, leave it in suspend.
My food and can cook a proper meal.
Also can throw on a wash or whatever during the day.
Through the comments so far the lack of commute would be the biggest plus for me personally. I work in a power plant about 35 mins from my house. So, no matter the weather I absolutely need to be in, sometimes that has meant sleeping there.
Being home when my packages get delivered is also a nice bonus too! And where I live, I have to deal with a lot of snow. Normally this would be a pain in the ass, but when you work from home, you get to it when you feel like it.
I have a contract that allows for up to 50% work from home. I use 0%. I live 10 minutes from work, so the commute isn’t significant (and it gives me a reason for some light exercise). It’s easier to work with colleagues if you’re talking face-to-face, and I like to mentally separate being in a working mindset and a relaxation mindset, which is more difficult if my home is a workplace.
Sometimes. There’s a lot less office BS at home, but it gets very quiet and isolated, even if you intentionally make a trip out during lunch or whatever.
The commute sucks though. Always.
Commute fucking blows
Hard to say. I’d always pick WFH if the commute is otherwise long or unpleasant (might choose remote for half the week and in person for tne other half), but i do think being around other people working is best for my own productivity.
I’d be honest. I’d personally love a dedicated WFH day(s) it’s truly the best of both worlds
Generally speaking, no.
I like getting out of the house, and I find I’m more efficient, better at focusing, in the office/field. Maybe That’d be different if I had a separate dedicated ‘work office’ at home, but I don’t have space for such a thing.
But, I do like having the option to WFH. Bad weather, car trouble, feeling a bit sick (but not enough to call off).
A lot of the personal benefits have already been spoken of.
What my work has really found value in is that WFH has nationalized what was once a single office team. So people from across the country work together. We have access to more talented people not just those from the office city.
Something blows up late on the East Coast? And a person on the West Coast can immediately respond because they are three or four hours behind.
I work from home for about 75% of my work. Today, I have to drive somewhere this morning, and then again somewhere this evening. I will spend in the realm of 2.5-3 hours in the car today. I do not get paid for travel. I will not be able to get in my daily run today. I probably won’t see my kids after I drop them at school. I’ll get home around 11pm tonight.
So yeah, I love wfh. But for the case of my job tonight, it’s very good money, and not the perfect use case for remote (although certainly doable considering we did for years), and so I eat it, it’s whatever. I generally have 7 or so jobs a month that I need to travel. Twice the commute is about 40m each way. The other five are 5-15m commutes so they’re fine.
Love it! Clients have better accessibility; lose less of their days in commute, they are now able to see a niche professional state / nation wide, and I can charge 40% less in not having an office.
At the moment it seems like market forces are pushing me back to an office. I will pass the increased costs to consumers.
I like working from home, but mostly because I don’t really do much work.
I love my wfh arrangement, my workplace is trying to go back to hybrid with higher percentage onsite, thankfully/unfortunately I have some chronic illnesses that prevent me from coming into the office without putting my health at risk, so full remote I stay and I crush every developer story they give me so they are plenty pleased
I like it. I would not go back.
But I have a nice home office, don’t live alone, and found office culture and colleagues to be disruptive.
I have ADHD. My job tends to be wide but not necessarily deep. A “quick question” can cause me to lose my train of thought, cause me to get disordered while trying to figure what the hell I was doing, get shut down by the frustration, and lose hours in ‘wait mode’ for the next interruption because it took me so long to enter a flow state that I’m fearful I’ll get interrupted again.Being able to shut my office door, silence notifications, and focus with music playing in the background has been incredible for me.
