Asklemmy

I sometimes have to. Not because someone tells me to, but because my physical presence is actually needed.

Sometimes I have to fly in from my middle-of-nowhere home office because whatever system I was troubleshooting wasn't fixable via VPN. And said system can be anywhere in the world, so it doesn't really matter where I live.

So returning to an office based work location? Yeah, that ain't happening..

Triple my salary would be my minimum requirement to offset the additional freedom and lack of commute that I’d have to give up. I’d be spending less time with my family and I won’t give that up for anything less than triple my current pay.

An office I can walk to. I might even prefer that to a home office, because I find it hard to get away from work when it is always looking at me at home, even in my spare time.

An office where I have a say in how it is furnished and how it looks, together with my colleagues of course. Natural light, being able to sit or stand at my desk. "Please do not disturb" signs that people respect when I want to concentrate on my work. A place that is built to reduce noise, and that allows me to have it as cold or warm, light or dark, as I need it to be that day.

A place where I can eat and drink when I need to, and a place where I can lie down for a moment when it helps me recover from a difficult task.

Basically, make my workplace a place to live, because work is life, not a separate thing, and you go home to start living.

Stepping outside my bedroom would get me back to the office, since my living room is the office

Double the salary, with a company car, 4-day week, and office kittens.

Honestly, I might just come in for extra cash and the kittens…

I would literally have to be kidnapped and dragged to the office against my will.

I'm only required to go 4 days a month (supposedly once a week).

I go almost every day anyway. 15 minutes of subway (Buenos Aires' Subte) and the office is more confortable than my very small department anyway. Also, nice lunch room, refrigerators with fruit, nice coffee and even when it's open floor, the number of people is still reduced and not (too) distracting.

I've been remote for over seven years now. I can't think of anything that would get me back into the office - why would I, when working remotely works so much better for me?

If I were these employers, I'd want to step back and figure out why it's so important to have people back in the office. Assuming they can find good reasons, work from those. For example, if it's about some employees actually preferring to work from the office, what kind of hybrid solution can you set up to make them more successful? How can you connect those who are remote and those who are on location? And so on.

Higher pay and a housing market carsh

i would go to work if

this was the boss

this was the commute

this was the uniform

this was the work










jk i'm service industry i never got to work from home

Employers generally pay employees to do things that they can't or don't want to do. We work (doing things we don't necessarily want to do) simply because it makes us money.

So yeah, want people to return to the office? That better come with a big offer attached or no dice.

Higher salary, free lunch, commute costs covered. And should be hybrid instead of all five days in the office (Tues-Thurs).

They would need to build an office within a ten minute walk from my home.

A job. Please, lol!

Regularly? Nothing. I go there to access material most of the time.

A couple more kids. Or a smaller house. Or my mother in law coming to live with us.

Because I work with customers and they’re naturally spread around geographically, there’s nothing that would do it. There’s just no reason.

Money. Lots of it. As in double.

A 50% salary increase. I lose hours a week commuting, thats my life being taken away.

Not to mention getting sick because co-workers come in sick, the loudness of stupid open office spaces, douchebags who wont bathe before work...

The office sucks ass and my house is a much better environment for me working.

Free food every day.

Teleportation technology

Desperation. I'd have to be fired from my job and begging for work.

A self driving car (or a personal driver, not a bus)

I could just modify the thing to sleep in it. Sleep through the commute