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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s the opposite. It’s so much easier to get by not doing work by simply being in the office.

Not only do I waste so much time commuting but I chat and socialize, grab lunch with colleagues, a coffee here and there and even spend 10 minutes booting up and shutting down my computer. It’s stupid to require me to travel with my laptop to work in office B when I can stay at home and work in office A with 2 hours less commuting time. Because of this I mostly socialize when I go into the office. The rest of the time I attend meetings and add unnecessary comments like everyone else. I get brownie points because I go in often.

The worst part is when I’m commuting I leave at 5 and 5-6 is valuable time for working with our west coast office. Unfortunately my management prefers me to travel with my laptop to work instead of actually doing work. Now the 5 PM emails are responded to the following day. Working in an office is one of the more inefficient things I’ve seen. It’s like suggesting we use fax machines.

My guess is a lot of boomers were always doing this and it’s why they dislike WFH. If you have a good manager and actual deliverables, it’s easier to figure out during WFH who adds value.

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You should log back on when you get home. [/quote]

Omg I love the hypocrisy of this. You need to be in person because work is done better in person. Oh but also work from home in the evening because it’s more convenient to have you working while you’re at home.

[b]This is literally the worst of all ends for the employee.[/b] Give up your personal time to commute in and work 9-5 and then also give up your personal time in the evening to do more work. Employers better be shelling out big law levels of salaries for that type of work commitment.

I make 160k to work fully remote with my own set hours, I’m always off by 4:30 at the latest. I’d need to *at least* double that to be commuting into an office and then log back in at night. [/quote]

Exactly. Be in the office but also continue to act like it’s the pandemic again and work and be available at all hours from home. No thanks. I’ll give them one or the other, but not both, and I know my value and can find better employment elsewhere if that’s what they want. [/quote]

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