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I'm a Googler who very much cares about having my own desk. I hate WFH because I find it to be miserable, strongly prefer WFO, and this would make WFO miserable

I'm a Googler who very much cares about having my own desk. I hate WFH because I find it to be miserable, strongly prefer WFO, and this would make WFO miserable too. I'm not gonna be miserable for 8 hours every day for any amount of money.

scarface74 4y ago
How is WFH miserable and if it is, it’s your home, can’t you make it more comfortable?
- gwoplock 4y ago
  Not OP, but for me, it's the isolation. I wouldn't quite call it miserable unless I can't go out. I lasted only a few days into WFH for COVID before I went to live with my parents until I was forced back to the office. Just a few weeks ago I was snowed in for a week and I was about to crawl up the walls.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    If I were single, I can see how that would make a difference. When I was forced to both work from home and not go to the gym and hang out with friends after work and I was single a decade ago during bad weather, that was miserable.
    - wkat4242 4y ago
      I'm single and I love WFH and I avoid the office as much as possible, coming less than required. Especially now with the stupid hotdesking. I actually have more time to socialize now <3 People are different.
- haunter 4y ago
  Not OP but WFH to me is like living at my workplace. There is no boundary anymore between work and home. This where I work, this is where I live. This gone with WFH. I much rather prefer the physical separation of office and my private home.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    I have (had) a separate room in my house for my office. I go in in the morning and i close the door in the evening and don’t go back in there.
    - Panini_Jones 4y ago
      In HCOL cities in the USA, it can be tough to get a setup like this. One may suggest to move cities, but my community is my friends in the city I live in. One may suggest getting new friends in a new city, but that's a tough and long process - friendships can take years to build, especially if I'm isolated and working from home. I could move further out of the city, but now I'm commuting 1hr+ one-way to see my friends every day. The very commute that WFH was trying to get rid of.
      - scarface74 4y ago
        That’s the joy of working remotely. But do you really hang out with your friends everyday? Serious question, I’m older and most of my friends are married with families (as am I). If we see each other, it’s well planned out and on the weekend. Even when I was single, I had friends all across the Atlanta metro area and we still ended up having to drive an hour to see each other. But it’s been a long time since I was single, and I will admit in my single days, work and my social life was intermixed so heavily that we would have all (male and female) ended up in HR today.
  - seanmcdirmid 4y ago
    WFH would have sucked when I was living in Beijing (I'm not sure how my friends have managed for the past 2 years). It is much better in Seattle, even though the space is more expensive here. I've got my own office, so does my wife (for now, our kid wants to sleep in our room anyways).
- KyeRussell 4y ago
  That’s assuming that one’s issues with WFH can’t be resolved by not having a bunch of other people around. It’s lost in me why so many nerds don’t understand that not everyone wants to be wrapped up in their fortress of solitude, peeping out of a Zoom window.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    I absolutely love being around people when I am not trying to do deep work. Even as far as going to lunch, dinner, etc with coworkers. I work in consulting now, I have to actually pretend to be a people person.
- PartiallyTyped 4y ago
  The existence of familiar faces, even if we don’t speak, reduces loneliness. “We are in this together” so to speak. It’s funny how our brains do so many things for us without us being aware of them. Now, the more people return, the more hectic and loud it will be which I detest.
- CydeWeys 4y ago
  Just about every reason you've seen for preferring WFO over WFH posted online for the three years of the pandemic so far is true for me. No reason to rehash it all here.
varelse 4y ago
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scarface74 4y ago

How is WFH miserable and if it is, it’s your home, can’t you make it more comfortable?

gwoplock 4y ago
Not OP, but for me, it's the isolation. I wouldn't quite call it miserable unless I can't go out. I lasted only a few days into WFH for COVID before I went to live with my parents until I was forced back to the office. Just a few weeks ago I was snowed in for a week and I was about to crawl up the walls.
- scarface74 4y ago
  If I were single, I can see how that would make a difference. When I was forced to both work from home and not go to the gym and hang out with friends after work and I was single a decade ago during bad weather, that was miserable.
  - wkat4242 4y ago
    I'm single and I love WFH and I avoid the office as much as possible, coming less than required. Especially now with the stupid hotdesking. I actually have more time to socialize now <3 People are different.
haunter 4y ago
Not OP but WFH to me is like living at my workplace. There is no boundary anymore between work and home. This where I work, this is where I live. This gone with WFH. I much rather prefer the physical separation of office and my private home.
- scarface74 4y ago
  I have (had) a separate room in my house for my office. I go in in the morning and i close the door in the evening and don’t go back in there.
  - Panini_Jones 4y ago
    In HCOL cities in the USA, it can be tough to get a setup like this. One may suggest to move cities, but my community is my friends in the city I live in. One may suggest getting new friends in a new city, but that's a tough and long process - friendships can take years to build, especially if I'm isolated and working from home. I could move further out of the city, but now I'm commuting 1hr+ one-way to see my friends every day. The very commute that WFH was trying to get rid of.
    - scarface74 4y ago
      That’s the joy of working remotely. But do you really hang out with your friends everyday? Serious question, I’m older and most of my friends are married with families (as am I). If we see each other, it’s well planned out and on the weekend. Even when I was single, I had friends all across the Atlanta metro area and we still ended up having to drive an hour to see each other. But it’s been a long time since I was single, and I will admit in my single days, work and my social life was intermixed so heavily that we would have all (male and female) ended up in HR today.
- seanmcdirmid 4y ago
  WFH would have sucked when I was living in Beijing (I'm not sure how my friends have managed for the past 2 years). It is much better in Seattle, even though the space is more expensive here. I've got my own office, so does my wife (for now, our kid wants to sleep in our room anyways).
KyeRussell 4y ago
That’s assuming that one’s issues with WFH can’t be resolved by not having a bunch of other people around. It’s lost in me why so many nerds don’t understand that not everyone wants to be wrapped up in their fortress of solitude, peeping out of a Zoom window.
- scarface74 4y ago
  I absolutely love being around people when I am not trying to do deep work. Even as far as going to lunch, dinner, etc with coworkers. I work in consulting now, I have to actually pretend to be a people person.
PartiallyTyped 4y ago
The existence of familiar faces, even if we don’t speak, reduces loneliness. “We are in this together” so to speak. It’s funny how our brains do so many things for us without us being aware of them. Now, the more people return, the more hectic and loud it will be which I detest.
CydeWeys 4y ago
Just about every reason you've seen for preferring WFO over WFH posted online for the three years of the pandemic so far is true for me. No reason to rehash it all here.

varelse 4y ago

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