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I would go back to office if my commute was like 20 minutes by bike and I would share a small office with one to three other people on my team. But my commute
by rmetzler 5y ago
I would go back to office if my commute was like 20 minutes by bike and I would share a small office with one to three other people on my team.
But my commute is 1 hour one way, some people don’t get seats on the train, U-Bahn in Berlin is like a can of sardines during rush hour and the bigger part of my team is in another country and the customer is at the other side of Germany. And the office is one big open office with ~40 people working. You need noise canceling headphones to keep your sanity. I couldn’t focus without them.
I‘m glad they don’t want to force us to come back.
- mlang23 5y agoMy commute is a 5 minute walk. And thats no accident. I very deliberately chose my flat to be quite near to work. Has saved me about 5000 hours of commute time so far.
- chillel 5y agoI love how that's an obvious option for everyone else too! /s
- grecy 5y agoI have a hard rule on myself - if the commute is more than about 20-30 minutes or particularly unpleasant, I must change jobs or move house. Life is too short to spend such a huge part of it in a commute you don't enjoy.
- sologoub 5y agoFor those starting out in SV now, that’s usually a choice of giving up a great job or paying super expensive rent/putting all your savings in a house or packing in with roommates.
- grecy 5y agoYes, exactly.
- rmetzler 5y agoYeah, my wife has a 10 minute commute by bike. I make her change her job, so I can be nearer to mine. No, sorry, it’s great where I live. Great nature around the corner, everything walkable, still a town with restaurants, but there aren’t that many interesting full stack dev and devops jobs and they didn’t pay as good. So, I’ll stay remote as long as I can.