Once a month?? Why the office hate?
Commuting sucks, paying for parking sucks, shared kitchens suck, open floor plans suck, office politics suck, being at the whim of people "just dropping by your desk to ask a quick question" sucks. Getting sick all the time when people don't stay home and they spread it around the office sucks. No seriously, I haven't had a cold or flu since the pandemic started, I love not getting sick every flu season.
What is good about offices? Why do you like them?
I can understand the not getting sick part, but I guess I never really suffered from colds that often. (Though I know some people who get them four times a year -- if this is you, I sympathize)
I know this website has a selection bias for introverts but surely I cannot be the only human who feels this way. The worst part is that anyone who wants WFH can have it, but I cannot have what I need. I pay for a WeWork just to get me out of the house, but that's basically nothing more than an expensive home office. My job is still 100% slack and zoom with everyone else in their bedrooms. WFH makes me depressed.
As people are discussing if they should quit over having to come to the office, you can also think about quitting because you don't have an office to go to?
There are many companies which have offices you and people with similar preferences as yours can go to. Do you mean you want your colleagues also having to come to the office even if they don't want to?
I don't want to "force" you to do anything. I would like to find a workplace where I can thrive.
Some employers are mandating back to office, so this option is being taken away. Those that prefer to WFH are not able to have what they need/want.
I'm always curious why those who like to work in the office are opposed to letting employees choose what they wish to do.
>>My job is still 100% slack and zoom with everyone else in their bedrooms. WFH makes me depressed.
I feel that most WFH proponents are in the minority, or on the spectrum of wanting to have the option to go in sometimes. So hopefully you won't be 100% on Slack/Zoom if employees are given the choice.
I think it's because they know that a lot of their coworkers will choose not to come into the office anymore, so the office will feel empty and that will make them feel lonely and sad.
That was probably true during the pandemic, but anecdotal conversations I've had with non-tech colleagues and friends surprised me by echoing what many in this thread are saying: that they'd like the option to go into the office on certain days, but not necessarily 100% either way.
It feels like the true minorities are those that that are 100% in either direction, except that there seems to be a higher percentage of leadership teams in the 100% minority.
This really makes it sound like you think other people should be forced back to offices so that you can get what you "need"
Office work shouldn't be your substitute for a social life.
Someone who prefers WFH can do this.
The last two years of the pandemic is a huge outlier where remote work has been the norm. Most workplaces before the pandemic were full time in-office and it seems there's a huge push starting to get everyone back in offices across a lot of industries now.
Many companies might wind up settling on a hybrid approach, but I can almost guarantee you that will lean more towards office than remote.
I'm sorry that the forced remote has been hard for you, but get over it. Society is still built by extroverts for extroverts. You will be able to get those jobs a lot more easily going forward than I will be able to find fully remote jobs, I guarantee it.
You can not seriously suggest that people who can do (and have done the last 2 years) their job remotely and want to keep doing that, come to the office to satisfy these... desires?
Why not get a job that gives that to you, naturally like a sales person or bartender or something.
Which implies you want "me" back in the office to satisfy your social desires and NOT because of improved productivity.
You can have what you need, just not with me / your colleagues. But you seem not to want an alternative solution.
Be better.