Work from home people piss me off

Go find a WFH job. Problem solved.

Sounds like a you problem

I WFH and work more hours than when I was going into the office. Reason being is that my computer is always with me. Sometimes, I end up working until 2am because I don't have to get up early to make the 1 hour drive into work.

The negative side of being able to work from home is you never really leave work. Something might come up and I need to do something at 9pm. Or on a random Saturday afternoon. When you leave work you are away from work until the next time you go back. Work from home jobs don’t have overtime pay for weird hours.

What did they say in Reservoir Dogs, "Learn how to type."

Work from Home is a huge win for those who have girl Friday-type jobs.

Nah. Remote log in has been around forever. Could always tap into work after hours at home even before you started WFH.

The fact very few of them work much from home is another thing as well. Where I live, they're slowly getting drug back to the office, bit by bit. Long overdue.

Yeah human nature is to slack off if nobody is watching and micromanaging your whereabouts. WFH is no different than home schooling. Those kids whack off and play video games after doing some silly workbook exercises. WFH slackers are taking dumps and checking this site every minute.

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What I enjoy most from WFH is the lack of bored co-workers walking around, chatting each other up 75% of the day. While I am sure they are still chatty, since I am not stuck in a cube farm or open office plan, with those people, I get a lot more done in less time as there are no distractions.

Listening to who WFH people complain, yeah go play in traffic.

Working from home is awesome great. I can take a break between meetings to make strong, tender love to my wife. Then after giving her pleasure, I continue with my workday. It’s like a Union-mandated break.

Yesterday WFH I was on calls or working basically from 730 to 545 almost non stop apart from lunch

Yeah people eff off but if you do and are in a high visbility role, that doesnt play.

Didn’t you gripe about this yesterday? WFH exists so I don’t have to see you in the office.

Visibility is the key. It made zero difference to me when I worked from home during the pandemic. My job requires immediate response/action, so effing off was not an option. Therefore, working from home was of little to no advantage for me, aside from relieving me from my small commute. Frankly, I prefer to be in the office so I'm not stuck home alone in the basement of my house.

However, there are definitely people who are taking advantage of working from home and being less productive. A lot of customer service type positions who are working from home, like medical office billing staff, just aren't picking up the phone or returning calls. I've noticed a trend since the pandemic.

The QOL benefits of WFH significant, you have that right.

You can now easily find a corporate gig where you WFH 4 days per week, roll out of bed at 8.40 to start at 9, have a leisurely breakfast whilst beginning your work day, are able to take care of domestic chores in down moments, prior to clocking off at 4-5 most days, hitting the gym, giving your emails a check whilst there, and then again at 7. I know guys running significant projects for solid 6 figure salaries from their houses in the country, if not from abroad. All the while productivity is actually up.

Compare that to waking up at 6.45, going through the hassle of preparing for the office, getting on a packed train that costs you thousands of £ per year, all to sit in an office all day. Back through the door at 7pm, knackered, no cooking or household chores done, no exercise done etc. And if you do want to live closer to work you’re paying stupid money to live in the middle of a major city.

But you’re not putting the genie back in the bottle. If you can’t offer me 2 WFH days, minimum, with paid travel, then I’ll work elsewhere. Equally, the market in sectors that can’t provide WFH opportunities need to figure out a way to respond.

This is also why I can’t fathom kids who are leaving university now and going into things that require significant face time. I have friends in finance, consulting and law who are working literally over double my hours, making well under double my pay, are forced to live in central London.

Congrats on being brainwashed by your overlords and not recognizing the true class divide between the ultra wealthy that horde all the wealth and receive all the profit from your labor. You have decided to focus on a divide within your own less class because one of them gets a marginal QOL benefit.

All people should have the same job, work in the same conditions and get the same pay.

Yeah, people act like it started with covid but I've been working from home a lot since around 2001. I even worked from home occassionally all the way back in 1988. If you are mostly working with people in different parts of the country or even the world, what is the point of going into an office?