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The single largest advantage of remote work is being able to live in a lower cost of living area with more land. Even if you're in the office 2 days that opens
by throwaway22032 3y ago
The single largest advantage of remote work is being able to live in a lower cost of living area with more land.
Even if you're in the office 2 days that opens up a commutable area that's far far larger than before.
- sokoloff 3y agoFor me, that advantage is third or perhaps lower on the list, behind "saving time almost every day" (#1 for me) and "having much more control over my office environment [that I spend 35-50 hours per week in]" (a fairly close second).
- chasd00 3y agoI’ve been wfh for about 10 years now. The biggest advantage to me is no work clothes and no dry cleaning. No driving is up there too.
- flappyeagle 3y agoWhat kind of jobs have you had where the clothes need to be dry cleaned? I’ve worn jeans or chinos to work my whole career and I worked in banking.
- chasd00 3y agoWell it has been 10 years :) but typical office style like pressed khakis, button down shirt, and uncomfortable shoes.
- throwaway22032 3y agoI think a lot of people don't realise that you can wash most shirts. I wear dress shirts all of the time and I've never dry cleaned one. I kind of enjoy ironing though, it's a nice ritual to present my best self to the world.
- jen20 3y agoThat’s not the advantage for me: even when living in the middle of the largest cities around - once across the street from the office - I preferred remote work since it is designed for those who deliver value rather than those who cosplay value generation via socialization and micromanagement.
- mattgreenrocks 3y agoThe ability to decouple wages from CoL is seen as a huge existential threat to existing power structures. If workers began to believe they have choices, then the old model of management simply doesn't work as well.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoThis is just an added perk as far as I'm concerned.