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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]28 year old, I can't stand working from home every day. I just want to work home maybe 20-40% of the time, but living in a 500 sq ft apartment alone, its lonely af! [/quote]

I hear you! The 20s and some 30s need to be around other people. I hope you can find a better balance for yourself out there. You’re at a good age to keep trying new things. [/quote]

I'm in my 40s and feel this way. Also my DH works from home 2 days a week, and it works best if we can stagger our days so we have the house to ourselves. It's not necessary (we both worked at home full time for two years) but I think it's healthy for us. Maybe one day of overlap a week, but more than that is overkill. I'm most productive on my WFH days when I'm totally alone.[/quote]

So you want to be around people, as long as it's not your husband. [/quote]

DP but I’m around my husband all the time. I just don’t want to WORK with him around all the time. He’s loud. It can be a little jarring for him to see me in “executive mode” all the time.  And when work is killing me, I prefer to be out of the house so no one has to deal with me that isn’t paid to.[/quote]

I'm the PP who said I like to stagger my WFH days with my DH and it's partly this (DH and I have different work styles and schedules and they don't always mesh great -- he's on calls all day long whereas my work involves a lot of focused solo time) and also partly that I think it's healthy to be away from your spouse during your work day. I do like WFH a couple times a week because I find those days of solitude really help me get through big projects and get away from distractions. But if I'm interacting with people during my work day, it makes sense that the people I want to interact with are my coworkers. We're working together.

And then in the evening DH and I come back together and can share things about our day and reconnect. You can't do that if you've spent the day working 10 feet away from each other. We already know. Getting a little distance and interacting with other people adds some dimension to our relationship that otherwise isn't there. I really don't get how people who work with their spouses do it. I like having some separation.[/quote]

That’s great.  You can go in as often as you like but why force it on others?[/quote]

If the point is for people to work together in person, you either need everyone to go in or there's no point. Some people like going into the office because they just like the office and don't care if anyone else is there. But if the idea is that people need to be face to face at least some of the time to collaborate and get on the same page, then you can't have some people who are just never there.

It's a company culture issue. Some companies are fine with no mandatory face time. Others are not. But if Amazon has decided they want the kind of culture where people interact in person at least a few times a week, then they can decide that and "force" people to come in. Ideally no on his forced and if that's not a culture you want to participate in, then this isn't the company for you.

Employment is a two-way street. [b]But the company does get to decide what the work expectations and environment will be like.[/b] The idea that you can just object permanently to something a company has decided is a core principle is childish. Just get another job.[/quote]

I disagree with that.  The employer can unilaterally decide to prospectively lower my pay or stack on additional duties without a pay raise such that my job no longer resembles the one for which I was hired.  I can also tell them that my duty station will be my home office.  They might decide to fire me or they might just not enforce their rule.  [/quote]

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