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Not everyone has a good work space at home. Offices provide a big desk, ergonomic stuff, etc. Then you factor in kids potentially being at home, and it's pretty

• smileysteve 5y ago
  This is what's keeping me from using a wework membership. At home I have a second monitor, my external mouse and keyboard, my aeron chair; and if I need a change, i can go work from the kitchen. Even if my company opened the office again, I've now got all of the ergonomics they can offer with no sneezing colleague next to me. And it's on me if there are dishes in the sink or the coffee needs a rebrew. Plus, at least one member of each team is geo-remote, so every meeting will be a better experience without being "hybrid"
• vladvasiliu 5y ago
  Isn't this situation a side effect of the “old ways”, where you had to go to work? So you optimized differently: smaller space, and no work space at home because you had one at the office where you had to go anyway, so it was better to live closer. Also, not all offices provide decent work spaces. The permanent humming of the AC, background chatter, cheap monitors, ridiculously low quality peripherals, wonky chairs… I could go on all day. In the end, it's almost as if there wasn't a single, universal best case… And I think this is what grates people, trying to apply a universal blanket policy when each person's situation and preferences are different, and they could all (or most of them) be satisfied at the same time.
• yifanl 5y ago
  I mean, anecdotes for andcdotes, but my office is on top of a subway station and isnt fully insulated around the windows (And today it was -15 C here in Toronto). My home office has neither of these two factors.