As someone who leads a team in tech this is maddening. There are days for me that I personally like being in the office, but tech 100% has no issues embracing remote work.
I’ve seen more leadership just not able to grasp the fact they have to embrace technology to communicate, as opposed to walking over to someone’s sunlight isolated desk cube.
I actually think most “deep work” gets done best in some form of isolation, be it remote work or in a dedicated office. For most people I know in tech, their home days are their productivity days.
Unless Slack gets in the way.
Still wfh for me. I do wonder if that’s because as a medium sized, not a big tech company, office space is tricky.
I imagine this is similar for a lot of places not rolling in dough, office space is expensive.
Office space is expensive. Part of WFH does also cost shift running an office onto employee. Especially if you have kids, you’ll likely need a whole other room in your home.
That is a fair point. I suppose, because you just described me, that yeah I do happen to have my own office, but not everyone can.
Yeah… Really the average American home is just not set up for 1-2 adults working office jobs. Maybe it should be, but that would result in even bigger (and less affordable) homes.
I have been working remote for same place for 12 years. If needed, I would assume outfit a external shed as an office before going back into the office. When I visit I feel like my skin is crawling – I can’t ever go back.
You must have had a worse office than most of us. A good office is a nice place to get away from family life with.
The office is very nice. I think it is just what I want at this time in my life. I want to be around my family with my dog laying at my feet - not in a corporate environment.
I get that. It’s how I felt before I had kids all up in my shit in my home office.
