Why Working From Home Rules

Smoove wrote:

This working environment is better than my office.

https://imgur.com/a/MVXOXVs

Looks like you’re working real hard there smooch. Aren’t you a bit old for that dungeons and dragons stuff?

Star wrote:

I'd like to add:

- You can do your laundry during the day.

- Start drinking early.

I'm about to start now with a couple work hours left in the day.

Doing laundry?

The classics are a classics for a reason, you troglodyte.

Smoove wrote:

The classics are a classics for a reason, you troglodyte.

Whatever that is, at least I’m not a hobbit

angryjohnny wrote:

Smoove wrote:

The classics are a classics for a reason, you troglodyte.

Whatever that is, at least I’m not a hobbit

can't you two see you're in love???

Can do my morning and afternoon runs anytime I want...

have a wicked tan from working on my laptop outside...

no commute...

no annoying co-workers 'just popping in'

AJ and I are actually friends, but do enjoy a little trash talk from time to time.

inagreementwithu wrote:

have a wicked tan from working on my laptop outside...

Unfortunately it’s too hot where I live to work outside right now, but that would be a huge plus.

never going back wrote:

Big one for me is the lack of commute. I usually drive 50mi each way with some traffic on the return route and it adds up to over two hours in the car every day. Add in longer days at times, and a 10-11 hour workday is 12-13 hours door-to-door. Normal 8 hour day becomes 10 hours. I'm actually working more now that I work from home a lot, because the commute has become extra productive time.

There are a lot of rumors about going to a more remote-work heavy plan permanently for my group, and I would be thrilled...I'm saving a lot of gas, time, and sanity right now!

That’s a 100 mile week’s worth of time just sitting in the car. No way I’d go back.

I agree with all but 4 and 5. My previous job was wfh and those were awesome perks at the start, but eventually theres just something depressing about being a grub in your pjs all day every day. Hard to argue with any of the other points though. You truly never realize how much you fart in a day until you switch to an office job. Love just lettin em loose at home haha

* Don’t have to listen to the guy on the other side of my cube wall take meetings on speaker phone and clear his throat 80 times an hour.

* No getting water from the drinking fountain and seeing a loogie in the drain.

* Can sit on the toilet and scroll Instagram without hearing the hefty HR woman groaning as she poops in the handicapped stall.

* Don’t have to pay $12 for overpriced Aramark cafeteria food if I forgot my lunch.

* Can watch TV or listen to music at my desk.

* Casual Friday is now optional pants every day.

* I have a window!

I don't know. I'm an introvert and I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. Thank God I'm not an extrovert or I would have hanged myself already.

I can't even pinpoint what the problem is. I'm sleeping too much, and feeling like the day is too short. This is just unnatural. We're supposed to be out in the world more than this.

Hobby Joggy wrote:

* No getting water from the drinking fountain and seeing a loogie in the drain.

* Can sit on the toilet and scroll Instagram without hearing the hefty HR woman groaning as she poops in the handicapped stall.

Gold

I had been working remotely 2 days per week (Mon and Fri) before COVID and there are both pros and cons.

Commute. You definitely save money on that, but time? I'm not so sure. 40 minutes of train either direction is over an hour of reading books. I sure as hell do not read for an hour per day when working from home.

Food. At the office I have choice to bring my cheap and healthy meals from home or eat something greasy and indulgent from a local restaurant. And nobody is counting how many cups of coffee I have per day. Only crappy suburban delivery at home, and healthy stuff gets so boring if you eat it every day for months. I spend a lot on hot sauces now. And also I gained some weight despite running 100-110 mpw and eating that healthy crap.

Equipment. I love working on my Mac but I fear the day when I have to buy a new one, it's so expensive. And my current one is 5 years old. My workplace at the office has two huge screens and a super comfy chair that's about as expensive as my laptop at home and I don't have to pay for that. Also phone, printing, supplies.

Training. Doing doubles is harder when you're at the office, but I somehow got into the rhythm. Worst thing that happens you're sweating at a meeting. You also don't do am long runs on an office day. When WFH, you sometimes do that and you're done for the day, hard to accomplish anything else.

I've started working from office two days per week this month and I'm glad to be back. Not having an office to return when you need to isn't that great. Mixing and matching is the best. Companies could also save in this scenario by providing less workplaces and making them impersonal, knowing some percentage of workers would always be remote.

I'm loving not driving two hours per day roundtrip. That's two hours a day I gain per workday, plus I'm not so tired after work, plus I'm saving a ton of car expense. My car insurance company even mailed me a check for $100 due to everyone being locked down.

Even after we return to the office, I'm definitely planning on working from home more often in the future. I think that'll be allowed by my bosses. So that's another bonus coming my way.

Of course, many other bonuses working from home: saving a ton of money by not buying lunch, coffee, snacks in the cafeteria. Lying down on the bed for 10 minutes if a wave of weariness hits me. Running at lunch if I feel like it, which was impossible at work. Lots of stuff you can get done during your workday, like washing the dishes for a short break from work, making the bed, getting the mail, etc.

Also I save a lot of time by not engaging in mindless prattle with co-workers, but that may be a net neutral, because that's one way you bond with people.