I truly do not understand the anti WFH sentiment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because we are human and need social interaction, facial expressions, and time to communicate outside of discrete work tasks to feel good about ourselves and be productive. People need to see and hear each other to informally learn from each other. We know that being together in person reduces cortisol and stress levels. Being isolated associated with higher levels of disease.

You got a mouse in your pocket? Who is “we”? I’m a writer/editor and I need peace and quiet. I don’t mind being in the office, but I 100% am more effective when I’m at home and it is quiet without people like you draining my energy and breaking my concentration.

As a fellow writer/editor, I would just like to chime in here and say that DCUM is the devil for writers and editors. Talk about breaking concentration.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like - why? If someone is in a meeting on zoom or in a meeting in a room, who cares? Let people do what they want
I'd 1000% rather have someone good who lives 50m away and doesn't want to commute but hits it hard for 9h a day than someone who doesn't mind schlepping in to be 'in person' and doesn't add that much value.
Like - why force ppl to be in your presence if they dont want to? Technology makes this unnecessary. So weirdly controlling and small minded to me. sure sometimes ppl get together in person but not needed every day.
we used to use pay phones on the street but now we have cells and we dont need to. same applies here.

It's the "hits it hard for 9 hours a day" part that is bullshit.

+1. Many people abuse the work from home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because we are human and need social interaction, facial expressions, and time to communicate outside of discrete work tasks to feel good about ourselves and be productive. People need to see and hear each other to informally learn from each other. We know that being together in person reduces cortisol and stress levels. Being isolated associated with higher levels of disease.

You got a mouse in your pocket? Who is “we”? I’m a writer/editor and I need peace and quiet. I don’t mind being in the office, but I 100% am more effective when I’m at home and it is quiet without people like you draining my energy and breaking my concentration.

As a fellow writer/editor, I would just like to chime in here and say that DCUM is the devil for writers and editors. Talk about breaking concentration.

shouldn’t you be on your work computer and not DCUM right now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because we are human and need social interaction, facial expressions, and time to communicate outside of discrete work tasks to feel good about ourselves and be productive. People need to see and hear each other to informally learn from each other. We know that being together in person reduces cortisol and stress levels. Being isolated associated with higher levels of disease.

Except that I get all those things from outside of work. I come together with FRIENDS who I get to choose and enjoy way more frequently now that I am not spendingt so much time on a soul sucking commute.

If I could have an easy 10-15 minute commute, and come and go from an office as I pleased, sure. But spending 45 minutes in hellish DC traffic that could flex up to 90 minutes with the slightest of issues (rain, accident) is WAY worse for my health than the work place "isolation". Btw, I live 7 miles from my office.

These types of posts and comments acting like whomever wants to come into the office has no friends or no life are straight up bullying.

I bet 80% of the people commenting on here that everyone should do what they want and makes them happy think that they’re liberals.

You don't know the definition of bullying.

This is attempting to coerce using personal attacks. When a coworker says “well I like being in the office a day or two a week so I can get out of my house and see people” and someone else says “I do that with my FRIENDS” and they all laugh. That’s bullying. That’s what happens at my work and the place I previously worked. When someone states “you want me to be in so I can see your ugly face and smell your ugly breath”, which is written on this thread, that’s also bullying.

The WFH people are losing now and they can’t handle it. They get progressively more aggressive and they’ll screw up hybrid for everyone else if they don’t stop saying a couple days in the office is useless so they might as well stay home. You know, there’s another side to that.

WFH is not losing. there are NO good reasons to make people travel to sit in an alternative room to do their work. Being in that room so the other people who wish to be there aren't alone is NOT a good reason. not trusting someone to do their work is NOT a good reason.
Things there aren't good reasons for eventually die. that's called progress.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A “dirty secret” of WFH at my 6,000 person old firm that is fully remote is “job abandonment” was number one termination reason in 2022.

Also we pay out vacation days. So people literally rarely put in vacation days to build them up.

People have figured out let’s say I make 120k a year. And I have RSUs vest at 2k a month and accrue vacation days at 2 per month why quit. Just start new job and ghost or just pretend or pretend to work it can take weeks, months etc. to get terminated. It becomes headache for managers.

I ghosted my old job four months once and new job boss was a pest. I ended up ghosting new job, catching up old job and eventually new job terminated me.

I say 70 percent of employees my old firm did it. So funny. This is why WFH is dying there is never a reason ever to quit. We had retirees, people move back to hone country, people start new business. There is never a reason to quit. Companies are catching on. Which is what RTO is about.

Heck I did a five month consulting gig at $20k a month flat fee. All WFH. Of course I kept my day job. What was downside?

80 percent of Remote people have a second gig. That’s a fact. Other 20 percent 10-15 percent goofing off or SAHMs.

Yes you can goof off in office. But I literally did 3-5 hours a week work for five months. That’s impossible in person to pull off.

This is insane. we are in meetings all day and have rolling deliverables. if your employee is not so busy that you need to make sure they are sitting in an office to KNOW they just doing your job, then you don't need to have that employee to begin with

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like - why? If someone is in a meeting on zoom or in a meeting in a room, who cares? Let people do what they want
I'd 1000% rather have someone good who lives 50m away and doesn't want to commute but hits it hard for 9h a day than someone who doesn't mind schlepping in to be 'in person' and doesn't add that much value.
Like - why force ppl to be in your presence if they dont want to? Technology makes this unnecessary. So weirdly controlling and small minded to me. sure sometimes ppl get together in person but not needed every day.
we used to use pay phones on the street but now we have cells and we dont need to. same applies here.

It's the "hits it hard for 9 hours a day" part that is bullshit.

+1. Many people abuse the work from home.

you misunderstood what pp had an issue with. pp is saying no one should have to 'hit it hard for 9+h a day' to be a worthwhile employee. not that ppl are lying about doing the work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because we are human and need social interaction, facial expressions, and time to communicate outside of discrete work tasks to feel good about ourselves and be productive. People need to see and hear each other to informally learn from each other. We know that being together in person reduces cortisol and stress levels. Being isolated associated with higher levels of disease.

You can very easily see facial expressions on Zoom or Teams, very close up actually. And at least in my job, I didn't see people all that much in the office...big, impersonal office building. And of course socializing can occur without the office - we see our neighbors much more often now!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A “dirty secret” of WFH at my 6,000 person old firm that is fully remote is “job abandonment” was number one termination reason in 2022.

Also we pay out vacation days. So people literally rarely put in vacation days to build them up.

People have figured out let’s say I make 120k a year. And I have RSUs vest at 2k a month and accrue vacation days at 2 per month why quit. Just start new job and ghost or just pretend or pretend to work it can take weeks, months etc. to get terminated. It becomes headache for managers.

I ghosted my old job four months once and new job boss was a pest. I ended up ghosting new job, catching up old job and eventually new job terminated me.

I say 70 percent of employees my old firm did it. So funny. This is why WFH is dying there is never a reason ever to quit. We had retirees, people move back to hone country, people start new business. There is never a reason to quit. Companies are catching on. Which is what RTO is about.

Heck I did a five month consulting gig at $20k a month flat fee. All WFH. Of course I kept my day job. What was downside?

80 percent of Remote people have a second gig. That’s a fact. Other 20 percent 10-15 percent goofing off or SAHMs.

Yes you can goof off in office. But I literally did 3-5 hours a week work for five months. That’s impossible in person to pull off.

This is insane. we are in meetings all day and have rolling deliverables. if your employee is not so busy that you need to make sure they are sitting in an office to KNOW they just doing your job, then you don't need to have that employee to begin with

Correct. This is just evidence of crazy bloated cimpanies - many tied to Silicon Valley where people just threw too much money at any business model. We haven’t had enough of a correction frankly we need a deeper recession to fix this rot. It has nothing to do with wfh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A “dirty secret” of WFH at my 6,000 person old firm that is fully remote is “job abandonment” was number one termination reason in 2022.

Also we pay out vacation days. So people literally rarely put in vacation days to build them up.

People have figured out let’s say I make 120k a year. And I have RSUs vest at 2k a month and accrue vacation days at 2 per month why quit. Just start new job and ghost or just pretend or pretend to work it can take weeks, months etc. to get terminated. It becomes headache for managers.

I ghosted my old job four months once and new job boss was a pest. I ended up ghosting new job, catching up old job and eventually new job terminated me.

I say 70 percent of employees my old firm did it. So funny. This is why WFH is dying there is never a reason ever to quit. We had retirees, people move back to hone country, people start new business. There is never a reason to quit. Companies are catching on. Which is what RTO is about.

Heck I did a five month consulting gig at $20k a month flat fee. All WFH. Of course I kept my day job. What was downside?

80 percent of Remote people have a second gig. That’s a fact. Other 20 percent 10-15 percent goofing off or SAHMs.

Yes you can goof off in office. But I literally did 3-5 hours a week work for five months. That’s impossible in person to pull off.

This is insane. we are in meetings all day and have rolling deliverables. if your employee is not so busy that you need to make sure they are sitting in an office to KNOW they just doing your job, then you don't need to have that employee to begin with

I have strict KPIs and deliverables. Why do you have meetings all day? My job I just left after 2 years 2 months had two hours of meetings a week and a 90 minute meeting every other week. My meetings was 12-1 on Monday, 1-2 on Thursday and 7 am to 830 pm every other Thursday. I on my own never scheduled a single meeting unless forced. And always early or late or at lunch. I kept 9-12 and 2-430 free as “focus” hours.

The job countered when I left. I literally could do 3 months of work in three weeks time. In person I would do more work. At home I hit the kpi and stop. Either goof off or do another job.

Ironically in WFH I looked like the hard worker. I have a 7 am meeting with UK and same day a 7 pm call or slack messages with San Fran. I only work before 9am or lunch or after 6 pm.

[Anonymous]

I don't either, but I also don't understand the anti-hybrid sentiment. My sister goes into the office two days a week and complains about it frequently, which is insane to me. It's literally two days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like - why? If someone is in a meeting on zoom or in a meeting in a room, who cares? Let people do what they want
I'd 1000% rather have someone good who lives 50m away and doesn't want to commute but hits it hard for 9h a day than someone who doesn't mind schlepping in to be 'in person' and doesn't add that much value.
Like - why force ppl to be in your presence if they dont want to? Technology makes this unnecessary. So weirdly controlling and small minded to me. sure sometimes ppl get together in person but not needed every day.
we used to use pay phones on the street but now we have cells and we dont need to. same applies here.

It's the "hits it hard for 9 hours a day" part that is bullshit.

+1. Many people abuse the work from home.

+1

My friend works at a place where they literally sent most of the office home, to free up office space for another department. The people they sent home are unreachable most of the time. If the "clients" knew what was happening, there would be an uproar.

[Anonymous]

Work from home is an oxymoron.

[Anonymous]

Because it's killing my marriage very slowly..... It is a big turn off seeing him lay around him bed all day

[Anonymous]

Wasn't this what the movie Wall E was about where we all become so despondent and don't care and have no interaction with each other