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I've actually enjoyed working from home for the most part over the past 5-6 months. My only main issue is that I tend to work MORE from home as you don't have
by sicnus 6y ago
I've actually enjoyed working from home for the most part over the past 5-6 months. My only main issue is that I tend to work MORE from home as you don't have the normal water cooler interruptions or group BS sessions about football or sports or... this or that. I'm hoping I don't ever have to go back to the office.
Worked from home for a few years in the old days but wasn't really disciplined to be very productive. Now I am.
- zepearl 6y agoWorking from home since ~6.5 months => I liked it a lot at the beginning (I wore pants on one day since 1.March, otherwise shorts all the time until today) but now I wish that I could go back to the office: I really miss being able to talk from time to time with somebody "real", having lunch in the canteen, seeing something different than my own walls, etc... :P
- bluntfang 6y agojust to clarify, what you desire is not specific to an office. you can have all of those things in a local community and many people who were remote before covid (including myself) were doing that.
- dorkwood 6y agoCan you be more specific about what you mean by the local community? Are you striking up conversations with random people on the street, or are you volunteering, or some other such thing?
- bluntfang 6y agoyes. having people around you to interact with does not require working in an office. people on the street. people at the dog park. people at the coffee shop. people bagging your groceries. people are everywhere (generalization , but if you browse HN you're probably not in an extreme rural area)
- Trav5 6y agoI agree. Sit in your front yard and work from there if the weather is nice. You may find more people routinely walk by than you thought. Say hello. No need to drive to "your community". Especially now that more people are working from home.
- amiga_500 6y agoWhenever post-covid comes, if you WFH you can meet a local friend for lunch. Don't conflate covid-WFH and non-covid-WFH as a reason to dislike general WFH.
- me_me_me 6y agoThis doesn't rule out mixed style of work, some days you come in, some days you work from home. There are things that face to face meetings are more efficient at, some don't. I really hope companies would adopt more WFH friendly attitude.
- Cookingboy 6y agoI wonder how skewed these discussions are on HackerNews. All the surveys from big companies show that an overwhelming percentage of people would love a mix of WFH and going to office in the future. I really think HN is just super introverted or many were stuck in some toxic office culture. I've always liked my coworkers in the various places I worked and being in their physical presence at work is a pro for me, not a liability.
- epicureanideal 6y agoFor me, working from home isn't too bad, but not being able to go anywhere else either is very unpleasant.
- cvhashim 6y agoAgreed. I’ve been lucky to work with great co-workers that I’m still friends with even after leaving. I think a mix of WFH plus going into the office 3 or 4 times per week would be ideal.
- postalrat 6y agoReplace "normal water cooler interruptions" with "posting to hn" and here we are.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoI feel like we all did that before as well.