I know this will vary a lot, so hypothetically let’s say you currently WFH/work remotely at least 3 days a week. Your commute to work takes an hour max (door to door) each way. If you were given the choice of a 4 day week working onsite, or a 5 day week WFH (or as many days as you’d like) for the same pay, which would you choose?
4 days on-site. I like the mental separation by having a completely separate space for work, and I enjoy talking to my colleagues. I don’t see many people outside of work, so I need the social interaction. And the lunches at work are usually much healthier than something I’d cook up myself, so that’s also a plus.
I have tried to work from home a few days, but don’t really like it at all.
I remember at the start of the first lockdown there were a bunch of young people in flat shares that really really struggled because the only private place they had to work was their bedrooms. I can definitely understand why people might like to work in the office for that reason and reasons like your own.
Gross. You needy people sicken me.
I’m sorry for having an opinion different than yours. I am not even saying that WFH is bad or anything, just that I don’t prefer it.
It’s not your opinion that’s bad, it’s being so needy that you feel you need to be around people all the time. That makes you one of those people that feed on the energy of others, which is harmful to them. Gross.
By talking to others, I’m feeding on their energy? I never said that I forcefully disturb others so they have to talk to me or something. I just enjoy the casual day-to-day chats with my coworkers.
But if calling strangers gross on the internet makes you feel good, I hope you have a lovely day.
They are your co-workers, not your friends. Running in to you at the coffee machine does not mean they care to go through the meaningless idle chit chat that means nothing but is a waste of time. If you make actual friends at work, fine, they probably welcome you. Otherwise, you’re just another person we are all forced to tolerate to get through another terrible day. Worse, your desire to come in helps legitimize the push to force people back to the office. So that’s butt kissing, if you don’t like seeing yourself as a social vampire. But the main point here is, we go to see our friends. At an office, we are forced together. In a forced setting like that, more often then not, your desire to talk can be taxing and a waste of time to everyone else. You want to talk? Do it with your friends, your family. Leave everyone else the hell alone.
That seems like a very depressing mindset to have. And don’t generalize your view onto everyone else like that. You say this as if I’m forcing everyone else at work to talk to me, which I am not. I am not even the one to initiate most conversations.
If you set an example of wanting to be in the office, that will be expected of the rest of us… so yes, it kind of is forcing everyone else, if not to talk to you, at least to be in the office. That puts you on management’s side of the war. No thank you.
I actually work in a company where anyone can work from home if they want. It’s just that many of us chose not to for various reasons.
So I’m sorry for having a preference different than yours, but if your management uses me as a single example to keep people in the office against their will, I think that’s s problem with the management, not with me.