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WFH was great to begin with, but as somebody living alone, the isolation starts to have an effect after a while when you're 'working alone' too And for many pe
by bluescrn 7mo ago
WFH was great to begin with, but as somebody living alone, the isolation starts to have an effect after a while when you're 'working alone' too
And for many people WFH has other problems - if you're a dual-WFH couple in a small home, lack of home office space is a very real problem. (Although if WFH was a permanent thing, many people could choose less expensive places to live, and have more space)
Still, anything to eliminate a miserable and environmentally wasteful commute.
- ericmcer 7mo agoI agree, 2 days a week in office is optimal. If they could coordinate which days to reduce traffic then... holy cow dream world.
- sixo 7mo agoI would love to have a coworking-space-on-every-block (or in every building) where all the WFHers can go to be around other people (just not the coworkers)
- asdff 7mo agoEveryone is paying for wework to do what their branch library can probably do for them.
- johnnyanmac 7mo agoOnly issue is that my libraries close 5pm on weekends and 7pm on weekdays. Nothing for night owls.
- 1718627440 7mo agoIf there would be enough demand to pay for it, it would stay open longer.
- johnnyanmac 7mo agoYeah, I was spoiled by my college town. Libraries open until 2AM, a 24 hour space for students. Even a few cafes downtown open 24 hours a day. Suburb life is mostly fine, but that's one thing I miss most. Gotta travel 20 miles to downtown for anything resembling night life.
- asdff 7mo agoLibraries aren't paid for that demand though
- itishappy 7mo agoThey could be! Here's a line from my local library's site: > Our auditoriums are provided as a public service for use by individuals, institutions, groups, organizations, and corporations for a small fee, when not being used for library-affiliated or sponsored activities.
- 1718627440 7mo agoThe libraries in my city get paid by membership. That's not exactly visits, but a correlated proxy. Also if it would become really crowded they would probably think of prolonging opening hours.
- jumpkick 7mo agoA place where We all work. Call it a WeWork maybe.
- sixo 7mo agoHN people always try to do this cute rhetorical gesture where you take a thing and say "hmm nice idea what if we called it <thing that already exists>", but they like this joke so much they get baited into doing it in dumb ways like this one. A coworking space in every building != a WeWork. There's a big difference between these! You could implement the former by opening a million WeWorks but that doesn't sound good at all; residential apartment buildings already have common areas, free to residents, they would simply have to be reimagined slightly.
- 1718627440 7mo agoAnd maybe we can pool them a bit by profession, because they often need the same tools and can help each other. Any maybe they can even work on some of the same projects, so we can remove meetings.
- sixo 7mo agoI don't see how that's necessary at all. All the arguments that WFH might be a good idea in the first place would still hold.
- 0x457 7mo ago> And for many people WFH has other problems - if you're a dual-WFH couple in a small home, lack of home office space is a very real problem. (Although if WFH was a permanent thing, many people could choose less expensive places to live, and have more space) Sure I get meetings you need to go to separate rooms, but how is the rest is different from a regular open office? Oh no, my co-working space has the person I like to spend time with?
- Paracompact 7mo agoMeetings aren't infrequent for many jobs. As well, small homes may not have the desired desk space for multiple full-time offices.
- 0x457 7mo agoSounds like whoever is scheduling meetings need to adapt to a new asynchronous environment whereas many meetings isn't necessary. I'm not saying everyone must be WFH or that everyone must have a home office. I'm just having hard time imagining how two people cannot WFH in a 1-bedroom apartment. Unless both of them work in a call center.
- jackvalentine 7mo ago> Sounds like whoever is scheduling meetings need to adapt to a new asynchronous environment whereas many meetings isn't necessary. I agree, and a lot of my 'participation' in these meetings these days is read the papers, write my opinion, attach it to the documents and tell people I'm not attending. That said we're 5 years in to this thing and people haven't adapted.
- adobesubmarine 7mo agoUsually best not to sleep with the people in your workplace?