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I'm on year 8. I'm a normal person and I like people. I liked the office. My last office had dogs and kegs. I have zero inclination to to back. I have it too good from home and living outside of major US cities has vastly improved my savings and quality of life. I would never assume to tell other people that they must enjoy WFH, but I certainly enjoy it and it would take a truly staggering bribe or threat to get me to go back.

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> My last office had dogs and kegs.

To be fair, if my office had this, I'd be a lot more inclined to go in every day.

Devil's advocate: this would be a horrible office for a teetotaler with a pet allergy, an alcoholic who wants to quit (possibly - from a productivity standpoint - also one who doesn't), or someone with dog-related trauma. None of that describes me, but just saying. For me, frankly, that seems like a distracting work environment that values camaraderie more than productivity; there's nothing wrong with the former but it shouldn't come at expense of the latter (and the converse feels like a weaker assumption).

Some people have a genuine preference for a brutalist cube farm and it's not because their aesthetics barometer is malfunctioning.

And that right there is the absolute glory of the home office. You can be in a brutalist white noise ADHD de-stimulation box and I can be in my bathrobe with fuzzy slippers, winter spice tea, groovy bass tunes and pup curled at my feet. Our worlds need not collide.

Indeed - lest my comment be taken as pro-office, it absolutely was not. Just that dogs and bar is what I would want if I were to leave my home office which has both.

I don't drink and I don't like dogs, which is just to say that this kind of stuff appeals to some people and not at all to others. That sounds like my nightmare office.

Kegs yes, dogs no.

> My last office had dogs and kegs.

Sounds horrible (I have allergies).

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