Why the return to the office isn’t working

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My wife returned to a hybrid schedule a couple of months ago. Every day she has to drive to work (30 minute commute, +- 10 minutes with traffic) taxes her emotionally and physically. She only goes in two days per week, and her actions and mental state are noticeably different on those days. She doesn’t really collaborate at all while she is there; there’s little value in her being present. Why demean people like this? Seems like a combination of management ego and sunk cost fallacy for existing leases.

I have worked from home for 12 years. But now with my wife also working from home, I don’t get the same focus / quiet I used to. I miss it.

Perhaps consider a coworking space?

I've got a home office but still rent out a desk not far from home. Get a lot more focus/"in the zone" time there, also it's nice to have work colleagues who you don't actually work with, best of both worlds in my opinion.

Totally agree with Grimburger - get an office at an executive suite, or some place like that. Regus is really nice. Always in Class A buildings, totally well-appointed. Kitchen, fridge, internet. You can start working the same day you sign your lease - everything is ready to go.

You can do month-to-month to start to see how you like it.

Because commuting into an office to hop on a bunch of VCs is an astoundingly asinine use of our finite fossil fuels.

I'm working remotely for 13 years now. It's really hard to imagine it to myself that I would get back to office.

Yeah, I dropped out of office life and went remote during the 2009 downturn. We didn't have all the videoconferencing tools back then. Can't imagine wanting to be burdened with a physical office for what I do.

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