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Work in the office or not at all (thelemmy.club)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 103 points 8 months ago (13 children)

i really do prefer working in an office but i need a reason. if you don't need me there, why should i be there?

granted, i work with hardware which i need access to in order to do my work, but that's a reason right there. if i'm having an algorithm day, why be in office?

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  • [–] 100 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I hate when people say “I’m a plumber and I have to go to work, why do you office people get to work from home”.

    Don’t you remember how good traffic was 4 years ago? Do you drive to clients houses to invoice them or do it from the home office?

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago

    I have to work in person and I'm jealous of people who have jobs that they can work from home, but I despise traffic and the less people on the road the better for the environment and the less stressful for everyone who is on the road, so I'm all for everyone who can and wants to WFH being able to WFH. Everyone has different circumstances, and we shouldn't all have to share the same misery just because.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    i spent all of 2020 and 2021 stuck in traffic since my boss thought we "needed a presence on the worksite". not that we didn't, mind, because i needed to troubleshoot actual physical devices that could not be connected to the internet. still do.

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  • [–] [S] 49 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Working in the office is more about control than anything. I've been WFH for 12 years now and it's amazing because I can still do my work without some unnecessary middle manager breathing down my neck

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    sure that's nice but i usually work with an actual team where fast changes to hardware is needed. can't really do that through github issues.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Those are fair points, but not my points. I'm working with people from all over the world and being in an office would bring zero benefit for me. aside from being on the road for two to three hours a day.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This is why I appreciate a hybrid and very flexible approach. My work wants us in the office, but isn't really particular about it. Because we do work with so many international colleagues and have late/early meetings and travel quite a bit, as long as you're usually in any one of our offices for a few hours 3-4 days a week, they really don't care. Having come from an identical work environment that was 100% WFH, I honestly prefer a flexible in-office because it does make collab much easier, while still allowing for a good work/life balance.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Eh, I've seen collaboration tank due to full WFH. People don't talk to each other, which means they aren't asking each other questions or coordinating with others on projects. It also pushes managers to become a bottleneck as individual workers don't form informal connections with each other to ask for help.

    Also, people are a lot nastier to each other when they are outside of punching distance.

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