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I've actually enjoyed working from home for the most part over the past 5-6 months. My only main issue is that I tend to work MORE from home as you don't have the normal water cooler interruptions or group BS sessions about football or sports or... this or that. I'm hoping I don't ever have to go back to the office.

Worked from home for a few years in the old days but wasn't really disciplined to be very productive. Now I am.

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Working from home since ~6.5 months => I liked it a lot at the beginning (I wore pants on one day since 1.March, otherwise shorts all the time until today) but now I wish that I could go back to the office: I really miss being able to talk from time to time with somebody "real", having lunch in the canteen, seeing something different than my own walls, etc... :P

just to clarify, what you desire is not specific to an office. you can have all of those things in a local community and many people who were remote before covid (including myself) were doing that.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by the local community? Are you striking up conversations with random people on the street, or are you volunteering, or some other such thing?

yes. having people around you to interact with does not require working in an office. people on the street. people at the dog park. people at the coffee shop. people bagging your groceries. people are everywhere (generalization , but if you browse HN you're probably not in an extreme rural area)

I agree. Sit in your front yard and work from there if the weather is nice. You may find more people routinely walk by than you thought. Say hello. No need to drive to "your community". Especially now that more people are working from home.

Whenever post-covid comes, if you WFH you can meet a local friend for lunch. Don't conflate covid-WFH and non-covid-WFH as a reason to dislike general WFH.

This doesn't rule out mixed style of work, some days you come in, some days you work from home.

There are things that face to face meetings are more efficient at, some don't.

I really hope companies would adopt more WFH friendly attitude.

I wonder how skewed these discussions are on HackerNews. All the surveys from big companies show that an overwhelming percentage of people would love a mix of WFH and going to office in the future.

I really think HN is just super introverted or many were stuck in some toxic office culture.

I've always liked my coworkers in the various places I worked and being in their physical presence at work is a pro for me, not a liability.

For me, working from home isn't too bad, but not being able to go anywhere else either is very unpleasant.

Agreed. I’ve been lucky to work with great co-workers that I’m still friends with even after leaving. I think a mix of WFH plus going into the office 3 or 4 times per week would be ideal.

Replace "normal water cooler interruptions" with "posting to hn" and here we are.

I feel like we all did that before as well.

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