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Commuting to and from the office five days a week is a hell that I never want to go back to. WFH has transformed my life. Being more productive is a nice bonus,

Commuting to and from the office five days a week is a hell that I never want to go back to. WFH has transformed my life. Being more productive is a nice bonus, though it’s the personal life benefits I care most about. Work is already so dehumanizing, can we just have this one thing in our favor for once. Four day work week next would be lovely.

truckerbill 3y ago
Fight for it, don't ask!
- corytheboyd 3y ago
  Like what, threaten my employer with an ultimatum? I’m not willing to do that, as the risk/reward balance is way off. I’d find another job if a six day work week is proposed, but not if a four day work week isn’t. I’d like to see it happen, and soon, so that I have it for most of the remainder of my working years. Back here in reality, I need (and like) this job, and there are much worse limbo states to be in than working for a respectful tech company, from home, hoping for the four day work week.
  - truckerbill 3y ago
    Yeah you just have to seek out better employers if you want it to happen, but I understand they work very hard to get people under the thumb :)
5350-uiop-1130 3y ago
post-covid made me realise life could be so much better if the working people just had a bit more leverage. it was a fleeting glimpse at how quickly the norm can be broken and rebuilt as something better, if only temporarily in this case.
- corytheboyd 3y ago
  Hoping it’s not completely temporary, and more of a significant fork in the road— there’s the path leading back to the office, but the path leading home has at least now been paved. I’m on paper a field worker now, so I don’t even have an office to return to. Company doesn’t seem to want to push for RTO, but I know these things change on a dime. Just like layoffs are NEVER EVER WE PROMISE happening, until, very suddenly, they are. Enjoying it while I have it, but if I lose it, that little WFH fork in the road is still there (I hope)
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truckerbill 3y ago

Fight for it, don't ask!

corytheboyd 3y ago
Like what, threaten my employer with an ultimatum? I’m not willing to do that, as the risk/reward balance is way off. I’d find another job if a six day work week is proposed, but not if a four day work week isn’t. I’d like to see it happen, and soon, so that I have it for most of the remainder of my working years. Back here in reality, I need (and like) this job, and there are much worse limbo states to be in than working for a respectful tech company, from home, hoping for the four day work week.
- truckerbill 3y ago
  Yeah you just have to seek out better employers if you want it to happen, but I understand they work very hard to get people under the thumb :)

5350-uiop-1130 3y ago

post-covid made me realise life could be so much better if the working people just had a bit more leverage. it was a fleeting glimpse at how quickly the norm can be broken and rebuilt as something better, if only temporarily in this case.

corytheboyd 3y ago
Hoping it’s not completely temporary, and more of a significant fork in the road— there’s the path leading back to the office, but the path leading home has at least now been paved. I’m on paper a field worker now, so I don’t even have an office to return to. Company doesn’t seem to want to push for RTO, but I know these things change on a dime. Just like layoffs are NEVER EVER WE PROMISE happening, until, very suddenly, they are. Enjoying it while I have it, but if I lose it, that little WFH fork in the road is still there (I hope)

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