tl;dr: positive impact
Is there anyone having a worse experience working from home? I'm curious to hear some stories.
Is there anyone having a worse experience working from home? I'm curious to hear some stories.
Especially in the winter months, if your work day is now at your home with no intrinsic reason to go anywhere else, you wake up in darkness and first leave the house in darkness, meanwhile the agency you'd otherwise have is impeded by people watching your Slack status wondering where you are, it's not exactly ideal. With no physical difference between work and home, you and up basically always being at home, which can be dreadful at times.
I get 90% of my social interaction needs from my wife/kids/dogs. The rest I get from going to the gym and lifting.
OTOH: i also live in the woods.
Either way, that's perfectly fine, it's not for me, but I wasn't arguing against it. I'm quite happy in the city near the mountains, I wouldn't even entertain moving 3 blocks deeper into the suburbs.
The Gym is an underappreciated social space.
Find a better workplace, Jesus.
"The most important finding of the study is that of hybrid work," Jan Kabatek, a researcher at the University of Melbourne and co-author of the study, told the ABC.
"The biggest gains for women were found for work from home arrangements, which involved the majority of days spent at home, but retaining at least one or two days of work from the office or on-site.> At least every room in my house has ample natural light…
Must be nice, I live in a basement. A place where every room, presumably more than one of them, has ample natural light, costs a minimum of a million dollars, but I still prefer my city to one who's only value proposition is ample sunlight and cheap houses.
My preference is 3 days in the office, I find anything less than that and I struggle mentally. My home starts to feel like a prison and I lose connection with people.
I really value human connection and I just don’t get the same thing online.
As for the coworkers not knowing your boss thing, I agree, although in a more positive framing – it can be helpful to have a work social group that isn't in your reporting chain. You can get this at many medium sized and up companies.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I make a slightly different argument, in that, humans will make human connections, whether they like it or not, and the most typical human experience is to make stronger and stronger connections with people you see regularly. Furthermore, depending on the company, there's the desire to be a part of something bigger, there's social conditioning setting in to prove yourself among your peers, there's the desire to not appear like you're lazy.
Where I think you'll agree is that your company will 100% exploit these human aspects of you to get a better margin on the value of your labor vs the compensation they pay you.
Turns out therapy was great, it made me realise that my work place was toxic and since leaving I haven’t needed a therapist again!
But apart from that it seems like the worst of both worlds? You still have to commute there, you can't reasonably expect to have peace and quiet since it's mostly open space (or if it's a closed office, how's that better than staying home?), and you don't even get to see your colleagues.
In my case, what I hate with the office is the commute and the random noise people make (phone calls, chats, whatever). I rather like my colleagues, so it's not like I want to avoid those people specifically.
Check out meetups! Bars! Reading groups at your library! Gym classes!
But for me it’s not really that. It’s about walking in a place and knowing everyone, having small talk and feeling comfortable chatting.
Work takes up a lot of time, so I prefer to have that along side it. Rather than only in my spare time. I
I also feel disconnected from work when WFH, like I don't care about the company at all. The obvious problem is that it made me think the time spent working was quite a waste.
I didn't take as many and as socialable breaks.
When I was unproductive, I felt internal psychological pressure to work longer. Now in-office, I clock my hours and am free.
I think you're being a bit reductive there. For one, the article indicates the greatest benefits are from a hybrid environments where some time is spent in the office.