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Most places are fully back in offices, no research papers needed.
by rogerkirkness 4y ago
Most places are fully back in offices, no research papers needed.
- sbierwagen 4y agoMy company has been fully back in-office since the vaccines came out. The descriptions of WFH I've heard online have sounded like dispatches from a parallel universe. I haven't been on a Zoom call since 2020.
- latchkey 4y agoI haven't been in an office since before 2018. Really don't think I ever want to go back.
- hu3 4y agoSame. Won't miss 1 hour daily comute.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoOne hour each way or round trip?
- glouwbug 4y ago1.5 hour each way gang reporting in
- jmoak3 4y agoI did this for 6 months and was on the edge of what I could handle. God help you, and I hope you can swing remote!
- arthurcolle 4y agoThat sounds absolutely miserable. Is your base comp like 350k or something?
- Apocryphon 4y agoDid a commute that took that long for a year, by rail. They really need to finish electrifying Caltrain.
- glouwbug 4y agoIt was 65k at the time. I live in Canada
- memling 4y agoIf you work a 230-day year, every ten minutes on your commute is over 38 hours of time. You're spending the equivalent of 17 work weeks in the car, or 37.5% of your 230-day work year. That's a lot of time.
- kevingadd 4y agoThe commute is really the thing that makes some workplaces intolerable, I think. You can put up with a lot more if you don't have to sit and angrily drive home for an hour afterwards.
- dleslie 4y agoAll non remote offices are intolerable when you've become accustomed to taking lunch with your spouse and having your kids hug you at your desk when they return from school.
- a_e_k 4y agoI'd add having pets around, too. For me, that's looking up from the monitor to watch the kitties romping together (20-20-20 eye rule reminders), taking a short movement break to throw them some toys to chase, and occasionally having one curl up on my lap while I'm thinking.
- asdff 4y agoSo many chores get done too with working from home. Laundry, dishes, yard work, errands etc, all on my lunch breaks that would otherwise be spent scrolling the internet over a sad sandwich i cobbled together in 5 minutes at 7am. By the time the end of the day rolls around I'm actually done with work, not just work work but the home work that I'd have to do in the few tired hours that exist at the end of the day after you've finally commuted home and finished cleaning up after dinner. Plus being able to attend to essential business with fickle hours is a godsend. I am no longer forced to do all my banking and DMV business on saturday before 3pm when all these things close. I can do it in the middle of the week like a retiree and not hit any lines. Running errands in the middle of the day means I don't hit any traffic either. It's still a 40 hour work week, its just one that's way more optimized for my convenience, to the point where it would be hard to put a price on the stress relief it brings.
- funstuff007 4y agolove the office or hate the office, pretty much every hates the commute.
- zzzeek 4y agoSource? Im friends with a fairly high level commercial real estate agent in manhattan and per his view of things, vast amounts of empty office space in most neighborhoods. covid and zoom may have changed the market forever.