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I’m guessing a lot of pro office people optimized their life more for a short commute. I’ve stubbornly always been at most a 10 minute drive away and it was nev
by pfannkuchen 3y ago
I’m guessing a lot of pro office people optimized their life more for a short commute. I’ve stubbornly always been at most a 10 minute drive away and it was never that annoying to go in (open offices aside).
- xboxnolifes 3y agoA lot of pro-office people, or just people in general that I know, would go insane if they didn't have people nearby to talk to every half hour or so. That seems the most compelling reason most of the time.
- askonomm 3y agoI guess pro-office people are all extroverts then. Really sucks for the rest of us.
- askonomm 3y agoSo every time you change jobs you also change homes, or how does that work? Or you only look for new jobs near the old job? With an average turnaround of 2 or so years for a software engineer, I can't imagine having to move every 2 years.
- francisofascii 3y agoExactly. Every new job I have had involved a move. I now have a house and a short commute, but if I want to change jobs now, it will almost certainly have to be remote. And this was a consideration even before Covid. I really don't want to move again.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoFor me I just lived somewhere with a lot of companies close by. I’m not saying everyone can or should do this, I just think a factor in the large sentiment gap between people who think RTO is crazy vs people who think WFH is crazy might be that one group has put themselves through hellish commutes for years and the other hasn’t.