Two Years Ago This Month: Work From Home

100% work at home is terrible for socializing and interacting with people, which is basically where we are at as a culture now due to social media obsession. I'm with you; I think a mix of home office and in office work is healthy. How else will the secretary get filled?

Me

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Anyone else in this boat?

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No, I've worked remotely for 10 of the past 11 years. I couldn't imagine working from an office again.

We went to flex about 6 months ago with currently no plans to ever go back full time in my department.

I could go in every day if I wanted to but it would be pretty pointless since my building is mostly empty most days.

I like flex and think it's probably an ideal mix for me.

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If I am at home and not literally sitting at my computer actively working on something, I feel like I am stealing time. It may seem strange (and kinda does to me), but that's how I feel.

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Funny you say this, I to have that weird anxiety. I'm not an hourly employee, but something feels wrong at times that I'm doing personal stuff between tasks.

Been working from home over a year now.
I keep everything restricted to 1 room so I'm not working all over the house. It's been fine wrt communications and work products. Given fuel costs, it's been even better.

We’re flex and hardly anyone works from home. I do once every couple of weeks and I’m really the only one that does. I’ll probably start working from home more now that it’s warming up though.

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I don't see how you effectively train people

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I moved into a new role mid-pandemic, and training was a joke. In lieu of flying into Atlanta and spending most of two months in hands-on instruction, we were relegated to a few days of online training for each subject area. We made the best of it, since travel was effectively impossible, but it was no substitute for in-person classes. Between that and only having access to co-workers via Teams or whatever, the transition was tough.

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Funny you say this, I to have that weird anxiety. I'm not an hourly employee, but something feels wrong at times that I'm doing personal stuff between tasks.

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I got a new job back in July of 2020. Same overall "office," just a different actual place/office. Ever since I came here I've been 100% full time in the office and I love it. But even to this day, damn near half the office is WFH, and it's weird. I always take different routes back to my office from the bathroom and most offices are empty. It's slowly filled back up, but I've heard rumblings that they will offer even more of a flex schedule with the interstate construction coming next year, so who knows.

But I had one lady here (she has since retired) in my office bitching to me about how when working from home she had to account for her time in a time sheet and include everything she did. She was livid that she had to do that, and her argument (to her manager, btw) was that her job is to review her documents and to be available for phone calls and emails, and she can do all of that at home and on her phone. I was like yeah, but by that token I can go plan golf every day and as long as I have my phone with me to answer calls and respond to emails, I'm good. Far too many people here want to WFH so that they can frick off. Most of the people that leave do so because they find new jobs that allow WFH full time. One girl just left last week and she said she found a new HR job for Ochsner that was 100% WFH, and she had "a bunch of projects" she's been wanting to do in their new house. So she literally left so that she can WFH at this new job and do home projects (i.e. not work. It's weird.