I find this really interesting. Iβm based in the UK and in what is classed as an essential job. So during all of the COVID isolation period I was still going to work, in the same office doing the same thing. I havenβt had a period working from home for a very long time and the idea, whilst appealing in some ways just doesnβt fit how I work today.
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Nothing. Reduce my hours, pay me less, but for take wfh away or I'm done. Nothing can compete with wfh.
What would bring me in? My commute counts as working hours. Fully pay commuting cost. My goals lessened to make up for the lower productivity in the office. Private office and private bathroom. Free healthy meals delivered. That might bring me back.
Double my salary. Even then It'd be tough. Working from home has so many benefits. Plus my entire team is in a different state, so going into the office would be pointless.
Better pay, time for travel calculated in work hours, better company food, better work desk.
A much better setup than my home one. A private office with sound dampening. Dual 4K+ monitors. A large wall mounted TV for casting training videos or collaborating. A coffee and desert cart.
Back to the office? In my country almost nobody left the office, even when the pandemic was at its peak lol.
What country?
Mexico.
Why does Windows Update take weeks for you? Even on 1990βs dial-up, the typical 2-3 GB of patches would only take 5 days to download.
I have no idea. It is funneled through something the IT department setup. I think they fucked it up.
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Not responding to e-mail when i clock out
- 4 day work week
- 6 hour work day
- 120k min salary
- Lunch provided
- Home cleaning service provided though benefit plan
- I would need an office (no cube/open concept)
- Casual dress code
Never left. Doing NOC, and occasionally have to kick some iron, so my team has to stay in the office.
Wait you guys are allowed to work remote full time?
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I work as an IT guy for a small business (6 people total) and I honestly prefer working in the office:
- it's easier to focus, I'm much more effective than when doing work at home, despite 95% of my work being possible to be done remotely
- I like most of the 5 people I work with
- I prefer separating life and work: I go to the office, do the work, go home and don't think about it until the next time I'm over there. I wouldn't like to associate my apartment with the mundane tasks I sometimes have to do for work
Also the commute isn't bad because I live in a well-connected district in a European capital. It's a 12 minute door-to-door bus ride for me, I don't even bother driving.
I've never worked in an office but it sounds like hell.
I've did a lot of blue collar work when I was younger and it's really not.
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