Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big babies.

Why do I feel like you are the one going into everyones office and yapping on and on about your cats for an hour while we are all trying to get our work done?

Is what you mean by “getting your work done” by posting on here.

Anonymous wrote:Most have started requiring 3 days in the office, and if not, it's coming. I'm talking about the private industry, not government.

I don't know why any of you are surprised.

+1. Big banks in NYC are in office all week. Goldman's cuts earlier in the year were informed by office attendance (you have to log when you are in the office weekly and I believe it's cross-checked with badge swipes). Cap One employees are lucky to have two WFH days. That is not the norm at other banks.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us went back in august 2022. Or earlier. Consider yourself the last of the holdouts.

Seriously I went back March 2020 (schools).

July, 2020 for me. Librarian.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big babies.

Why do I feel like you are the one going into everyones office and yapping on and on about your cats for an hour while we are all trying to get our work done?

Ohhh, not PP but this is me. Sorry, but I'm not sorry about that.

😂 Same. I have a remote Tech job. My last three trips to Wegman's I chatted everyone up about any and everything. Good chats with the cashier (don't worry there's never lines at my Wegman's). You reallllly don't want to force people like me into the office. I'm much more productive at home and so is everyone else (in the hall, at the coffee, that lady who waters the plants (how interesting! they are all real!), the help desk, that lady with the kyOOT sweater in the cafeteria, the security guy... on and on and on.

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Anonymous wrote:WFH if it suits you. Go in if it suits you. Everyone has a preference. Why can't we all just do this? It's logic.

It's not logical really. If you want to create any kind of collaborative work environment where there are actual benefits from humans working together, all people need to come in to make the benefits possible. There is really zero point to coming in to work and Zooming all day.

People with international teams do just that, genius. I can zoom at home with my overseas team or do it in the office. Doesn't matter to me.

Anonymous wrote:Some of us went back in august 2022. Or earlier. Consider yourself the last of the holdouts.

Seriously I went back March 2020 (schools).

Anonymous wrote:I think companies undermined efforts to bring workers back into the office by not doing so much earlier. The reality is that most white collar workers could have been back in office almost two years ago once vaccines were available. Staying some since 2021 has not been about covid but rather about convenience and lifestyle.

Too bad the vaccines were proven to not work as advertised. That is a main factor why folks were not allowed back.

Anonymous wrote:I think companies undermined efforts to bring workers back into the office by not doing so much earlier. The reality is that most white collar workers could have been back in office almost two years ago once vaccines were available. Staying some since 2021 has not been about covid but rather about convenience and lifestyle.

+1

Exactly. We were sent back almost immediately.

OP, try the Federal Government - they are home. FDA and DARPA in particular, and I am certain many others!

I think companies undermined efforts to bring workers back into the office by not doing so much earlier. The reality is that most white collar workers could have been back in office almost two years ago once vaccines were available. Staying some since 2021 has not been about covid but rather about convenience and lifestyle.

Anonymous wrote:WFH if it suits you. Go in if it suits you. Everyone has a preference. Why can't we all just do this? It's logic.

It's not logical really. If you want to create any kind of collaborative work environment where there are actual benefits from humans working together, all people need to come in to make the benefits possible. There is really zero point to coming in to work and Zooming all day.

Cap1 was always super lenient, no one came in on Fridays before covid.

Some of us went back in august 2022. Or earlier. Consider yourself the last of the holdouts.

It will be fine.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WFH if it suits you. Go in if it suits you. Everyone has a preference. Why can't we all just do this? It's logic.

Because as much as some people want to claim that they are just as productive if not more when they are at home, most of us are not. There is a key component of collaboration that just doesn't happen to the same extent when we are all on Teams and working from home. Some jobs, absolutely! But there are a lot of jobs that are 100% done better when everyone is in person.

Stop pulling everyone into your preference. Feel free to go in the office.

It's not my preference. I love being able to put in a load of laundry during the day, let that contractor in when I need to. Greet my kid at the bus. However, I'm also able to recognize that a lot is lost when everyone is working from home 100% of the time. You can fight it all you want to, but you might as well get used to the idea that employers are increasingly going back to 3+ days in the office because it's necessary for most positions.

Frankly, I think wfh hurts people in most cases.