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As someone who relocated himself to be closer to an office, I’m ecstatic about it. I live within walking distance of my office, and I basically have it to myself most of the time. A bright, clean, air condition, professionally managed placed where I can just focus on work, and when I’m done, I leave it all there. As soon as I badge out, I’m in family mode.

If a colleague decides to come in, it’s like seeing an old friend from college. We catch up, get some work done in a different way, and maybe get coffee.

I’m not concerned about productivity either way. What will get is what will get done, and I’m happy about it.

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The part you like sounds financially unviable… you have most of the office to yourself. In RTO, offices aren’t empty, they’re loud and full of people who don’t want to be there.

Are you "ecstatic" about living close to an office or RTO mandates? The former is totally understandable. Shit, who wouldn't want to live next to a sparsely populated office, optional to use whenever you want. If you're stoked mgmt is pushing RTO because more chums at the water cooler... not great Bob

The headline of the article is "Remote work is here to stay," and I'm ecstatic about that, because my employer is one of those that will probably never give up their real estate footprint. I get the flexibility to work from home if I want and the option to come into an office that is cleaned and maintained by someone else. I can easily afford where I live, and it's in near other non-work things that I enjoy.

I don't work in the finance department. The company stock keeps going up and I'm enjoying my job. If either of those stops being true, I'll re-evaluate.

Sure now it's nice, but do you remember offices before covid? Chicken coops.

I knew of one company where it was uncomfortably stuffy after 6 pm when they turned the hvac off. The office was so crowded that there literally was not enough oxygen in the building.

This is good because people who choose to go to an office without being forced are self-selecting themselves for social interaction. Anyone you see there wants to be there so they should be fair game for pleasantries.

I do not want to be approached. When 5pm rolls around, Slack stops sending notifications, and when I slam my laptop shut, it doesn’t open until 9am the next business day at the earliest.

That said, a whole office just to placate such people seems like a gratuitous expense.

> I’m ecstatic about it., ..., and I basically have it to myself most of the time

And how did you feel when it was crammed full?

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