re: Thoughts on Remote Work/Work From Home Long Term?

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He gained 35 lbs from snacking all day. His personal hygiene went downhill

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I did this too

Now I try to walk two miles every day to get out, do some lifting and take a shower every morning before I start working.

You have to treat it like you are getting up to go to the office.

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The first question to ask your self would be, does my career path support and allow work from home? You can’t just aim for those jobs when in reality you need to be on site occasionally or routinely.

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I've essentially had 2 different careers. One would potentially allow for remote work while the other absolutely wouldn't. I would actually be okay with a complete career change though to enable remote work.

A lot of my career has been spent in HR which I would think would lend itself to Remote Work. Mostly just a lot of legal stuff, forms and paperwork.

Let me ask you all this. Do you think I'm giving too much importance to the freedom aspect? The idea of being able to live anywhere and move around for extended periods of time due to not being tied to a physical position? Again as someone who has never done Remote Work I'm just trying to gain as many perspectives as possible. To me the freedom aspect is the main benefit of Remote Work.

I absolutely hate it. I’m a social person and derived some satisfaction from going into an nice office every day, seeing pretty professional woman in the cafeteria even though I rarely talked to them, meeting my new teammates and shaking their hands when they started.

All of that is gone. I’m single with no kids, so I home alone. I get off work and I walk to the couch but it takes awhile to truly feel like I’m off work. I go for a long walk after work to ease the transition between work time and off time but it took awhile for me to incorporate that into being more than a fake it till ya make thing.

It did allow me to move cities which is something I couldn’t do before and was stuck in a town I hated. For my new job, I’m hoping it will be from an office or at least have a plan to get back to the office. As of now and my current employer, we’ll likely always be working from home from here on out.

We did a survey recently and I’m very much in the minority though. 80% love WFH.

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I absolutely hate it. I’m a social person and derived some satisfaction from going into an nice office every day, seek g pretty professional woman in the cafeteria even though I rarely talked to them, meeting my new teammates and shaking their hands when they started.

All of that is gone. I’m single with no kids, so I home alone. I get off work and I walk to the couch but it takes awhile to truly feel like I’m off work. I go for a long walk after work to ease the transition between work time and off time but it took awhile for me to incorporate that into being more than a fake it till ya make thing.

It did allow me to move cities which is something I couldn’t do before and was stuck in a town I hated. For my new job, I’m hoping it will be from an office or at least have a plan to get back to the office. As of now and my current employer, we’ll likely always be working from home from here on out.

We did a survey recently and I’m very much in the minority though. 80% love WFH.

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I could definitely see where WFH would pretty much eradicate the lines between work and personal life. And I could see it being bad in the ways where a manager or executive could call you asking you to look at something knowing your laptop is right there.

I don't have a big condo so when I was home and not doing remote work I would probably have to invest in converting a spare bedroom in a work office or in the very least significantly upgrading the desk in my living room.

Like you I am also single with no kids. The whole Covid-19 crisis has been a blessing and a curse. I'm the type who can easily zone out on the world for a few days but now even I've started to miss social interaction (in general, not work) and I'll admit I do worry that my social skills have started to degrade a little.

I think the WFH experience for single people with no kids is radically different than the WFH experience for married people and/or people with kids.

Been WFH/Remote exclusively since April of 2016.

It took me about a month or so to truly get into the swing of things once I started, but now that I’ve gotten so accustomed to it, I don’t know that I could ever go back into the office full-time.

I don’t work much while I travel though - maybe take slightly longer visits to see my folks or in-laws and work a day or two from their houses, but for the most part, I just work from my home office and take vacations like a typical in-person employee.

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I'm someone who can get my work done in 1/2 of the working day. I love work from home but my office has us back in-person starting Dec 7th.

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I'm sorry to hear that. Your company isn't offering any options? Even a hybrid option where you work some days in the office and some days WFH?

I think a lot of companies don't realize how much WFH has changed the employee mentality. I think companies like yours that don't try to accommodate that will end up losing a lot of talent.

Have you considered looking at new opportunities?

This “pandemic “ is changing our world in so many ways that people don’t realize. Refineries are shutting down because this is a “reason” to go green. And on and on. We are going to be in a depression by the end of next year and now we have dumb and dumber in charge. We are so fricked it’s not even funny.

I’m for it.