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If nothing else, home offices can be a lot quieter than the usual mix of plague ward and bazaar that defines modern work environments.
by throw16180339 2y ago
If nothing else, home offices can be a lot quieter than the usual mix of plague ward and bazaar that defines modern work environments.
- georgemcbay 2y agoThis is a big factor for me, especially as someone who has been doing software development for a long time. When I first started it was typical to have individual offices, or at worst office sharing where you shared an office with one other dev who was likely trying to keep distractions to a minimum as much as you were. Now almost every workplace is an open office plan, hot desk swapping hellscape. If offices were like they generally were when I first started I would be a lot more personally pro-RTO, but the way they are these days I much prefer to work at home in peace and quiet. (Of course, the peace and quiet aspect will vary based on the particulars of everyone's homes/families/etc). Traffic is of course the other major factor. As someone who lives in Southern California, the commute time from where I live to where I work is either 15 minutes or an hour and a half based on traffic congestion and its pretty freeing to not have to worry so much about preplanning your commute to minimize the likelihood of landing on the bad side of this.
- flappyeagle 2y agoI say this as someone who’s worked from home for the last six years of my career pre-Covid I would never want to work at Amazon or Facebook or whatever while being remote. You’re leaving half of the benefit of being at those places on the table.