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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe someone has raised this before but for me, the mental health benefits of not being in person in a toxic workplace and not having to be stuck in a car/metro for 12 hours a week are the main reason I want to continue WFH.

I have been at my company for a long time. It’s top heavy, toxic, and has a lot of senior staff who are paid a lot of money to do very little but rearrange deck chairs while wearing suits and giving the appearance of doing work while really just watching their underlings do everything.

Pre COVID I did all the “things” younger employers think they need to do to get ahead. Worked long hours, was insanely productive, worked through lunch, networked, volunteered for committees, got a work “mentor,” did professional development seminars, had outstanding job performance, etc. It didn’t really serve me the way I thought it would at all. I ended up on a team with real issues (bullying, racism, former employees suing for discrimination) and managed to emerge unscathed with a reputation for doing great work, but what I eventually realized was that no one was going to promote me. The higher ups would obscure my contributions and try to make it seem like they were responsible for the good work I did. I only got raises and promotions by demanding them and writing memos explaining in painstaking detail all my achievements, having very uncomfortable conversations with my boss who clearly didn’t want to stick her neck out but ultimately realizes she had to (or she’d lose her top performer), getting peers to share their salaries with me, etc. and it still took nearly a year each time.

I was able to transition to WFH full time during COVID and I never want to go back. Being home I am able to largely be outside of the toxic crazymaking, bullying, grandstanding, micro aggressions, and shameless self-promotion that the crazies engage in to get to the top (or to try to stay in a leadership position because they actually don’t do anything meaningful for the company so playing office politics is their only way to get job security). The last company I worked with was like this, too, so I have no faith that elsewhere it would be different. I would like to hope it would be, but I am not holding my breath.

For me, you can’t put a price on the mental health benefits of WFH. I sometimes miss the “friendships” I had in the office, but let’s be honest - those are never that real anyway in corporate America. [/quote]

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