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As happens in every single WFH discussion, it turns from someone saying "look, more people can WFH" to the strawman that this means that everyone must work from

As happens in every single WFH discussion, it turns from someone saying "look, more people can WFH" to the strawman that this means that everyone must work from home and that WFH is being presented as an incredible panacea with all upsides. Not everyone should work from home. A lot of people don't like it. A lot of people need the in face connections. Working from home has lots of downsides that have been covered on here and everywhere many, many hundreds/thousands of times. But a lot of people don't need to go into an office, at least not every working hour of every day. A lot of positions don't. A lot of people thrive fully working from home, some working part time from home and other times in the office, or a cafe, or whatever. But how these discussions always go is the no-work-from-home crowd effectively saying that no one should work from home because they personally don't enjoy it.

_ph_ 7y ago
WFH doesn't have to be all or nothing. One can WFH 2-3 days/week and for the other days be in the office. So there is still plenty of opportunity for interaction, but on the other days, one can enjoy the benefits of WFH. I have a lot of colleagues, who do have long commutes, so for them, every single day of WFH has quite a benefit.
- tzs 7y ago
  If you can work from home the majority of time, and if you can arrange it so that those times you work in the office can be on a slightly shifted schedule so that you aren't traveling during rush hour, you might also be able to live quite a bit farther from the office which could greatly cut your housing costs. For example, if you could do a 4 day home 1 day at the office schedule and were willing to do a 90 minute commute each way on your office day, that would be enough to let you work in downtown San Francisco and live in Modesto. There you can have a 3 bedroom 2 bath 1400 sq ft house on a 7000 sq ft lot with a two car garage for $300-500k. Many in that price range will even have a pool.

_ph_ 7y ago

WFH doesn't have to be all or nothing. One can WFH 2-3 days/week and for the other days be in the office. So there is still plenty of opportunity for interaction, but on the other days, one can enjoy the benefits of WFH. I have a lot of colleagues, who do have long commutes, so for them, every single day of WFH has quite a benefit.

tzs 7y ago
If you can work from home the majority of time, and if you can arrange it so that those times you work in the office can be on a slightly shifted schedule so that you aren't traveling during rush hour, you might also be able to live quite a bit farther from the office which could greatly cut your housing costs. For example, if you could do a 4 day home 1 day at the office schedule and were willing to do a 90 minute commute each way on your office day, that would be enough to let you work in downtown San Francisco and live in Modesto. There you can have a 3 bedroom 2 bath 1400 sq ft house on a 7000 sq ft lot with a two car garage for $300-500k. Many in that price range will even have a pool.