Workers Discuss The Benefits of Working in an Office Vs Working From Home

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    Font - r/antiwork u/shallowshadowshore • 1d 3 Why do some workers want to go back to the office? Question Not talking about investors or execs wanting to justify their real estate costs or exert their overbearing control on their employees. I'm wondering why actual workers want to go back to the office.
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    Font - I really and truly don't understand. I've been working remotely for close to 3 years now, and it has been an exclusively positive experience. I have yet to find a single downside. My mental health is so much better because of all the time it saves me.
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    Font - But a lot of people seem to have different experiences. Why? What are the positives of the office and downsides of remote work that I'm not seeing?
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    Font - Angry DrnkBureaucrat. 1d 2 Awards I know a few people with HORRIBLE home lives. Work is their break. ... Reply 15.5k
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    Font - Stephanie Says66 - 21h This was me a few years before the pandemic. Now that I live alone, I love working from home. No commute, and I really do have more time off. 42.1k
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    Font - ARE SO SableSheltie. 21h I worked w/a lady once who never used her pto so I finally suggested she try taking long weekends off. I explained that if she used 1 vacation day on a holiday weekend she could get a 4 day weekend and recharge her batteries. She used to run herself pretty ragged. The first time she tried it she said never again. Spent the entire 4 days arguing w/her pos adult child who sponged off I mean lived with her. 1.2k
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    Font - FroggoFigures. 1d 5 Awards Lots of lonely folks that actually manage to make work friends. Never managed that myself but I know people who like that. I think some people have a hard time focusing at home.
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    Font - Lastly, I think some people struggle to keep work and home life separate, so keeping them in totally separate places might help them balance. I know a lot of people that check emails after work and shit otherwise. Boss doesn't deserve a second more of your time or space imo, so I vibe with that. ... Reply 8.2k
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    Font - Throwaway_Throat74 • 22h 1 Award That last one was a big problem for me. I didn't have enough space in my home so I had to put my work computer on the same desk was my gaming PC which is my main source of entertainment and relaxation. So at the start of WFH I would spend 8 hours working, get up, walk the dog, make dinner, eat and then sit down at the same desk I spent 8 hours working at to relax. It eroded the separation between work and the rest of my life until I was able to make enough
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    Font - Child Of1970 . 1d For now working to live, never living to work 1 Award Some do, some don't, the solution is choice. Let the worker decide.
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    Font - Edit: Why is a personal thing for the individuals. Edit 2: I have been remote for over 10 years and am very happy staying that way Reply 1.5k
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    Font - QQ junglejonny. 1d I simply cannot motivate myself to work when im at home, like home is my place to not work so yeah, I kinda need an office. Everyone should have the choice though! Reply 1.6k
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    Font - suchahotmess 21h Yes! I have ADHD so I struggle to focus when I'm not in the physical place that means work. I do remote days when I have a ton of meetings, and sometimes I'll do a day half and half. Plus it's bad for my health, first 3 months of quarantine I gained a ton of weight and it didn't stop until I started sneaking back into the office. If I don't have to leave the house to go to work I just... don't. 4179 ...
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    Font - ggallinsmicropp. 1d S 1 Award Trying to escape their families. Reply 3k
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    Eye - Cactastrophe. 1d My previous boss openly said that. 4756
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    Font - Latro_in_theMist • 1d I don't have kids (yet) but I could very much see a home environment where you are routinely interrupted. It's why I hate open office environments and love working from home. ... 501
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    Font - Discolover78. 1d Yep. A lot of my wealthier friends loved wfh over covid because they locked the door to their home office and worked. I'm in a townhouse with kids. Trying to get anything done without someone shouting or running across camera was impossible. My work is family friendly so it didn't hurt much, but it was hard. 132
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    Font - ilyriaa. 1d As introverted as I am, I don't want to be home 24/7. I also want my home to be a work free sanctuary and enjoy socializing with my colleagues. Reply 310
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    Font - brock_lee 1d ● I do not want to go back full time, but 1 or 2 days a week for me is actually therapeutic. I do the same job, and is a just short drive, and I see people, get to interact with them (not even necessarily business related, just having real human contact with an adult) and with how my house is laid out, I don't have a quiet separate place to work from home, I work in the family room, which is really only an office at this point, but completely open to the kitchen and dining ro
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    Font - MrBaker452 • 1d I agree with this. I think the ideal set up is having a flex plan that allows people to be adults and make the choice for themselves. I also have found that training new people is easier in person. Some context: 29M, engineering, office is split 50/50 most days. 480 ...
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    Font - saltyninjaat 1d . Not me personally, but some people miss the social interaction and face to face communication. I wonder if it's important that everyone who has expressed that to me is in their 40s or older. Reply 522
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    Font - nyrB2. 1d i think it's this exactly. some people are very social animals and work-from-home can feel very isolating in that regard. btw the one person on my team that absolutely insisted on coming back to work in his 20s. the older people wanted to stay home. 198
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    Font - allmyhomieshate311. 1d I'm a college student 1 week away from graduating from undergrad. I've had 3 internships, 2 of them fully remote. Not having experience working with actual full time employees severely stunted my professional growth.
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    Font - My most recent internship I worked hybridly and chose to come into the office almost every single day because the amount I was learning was EXPONENTIALLY greater by just being able to speak to a coworker on the fly, instead of having to schedule a meeting a few days out or make a disruptive Skype call. ... Reply 91
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    Font - Magoo69X 1d ● I like to spend 2-3 days a week at the office. Working at home is great, but it gets claustrophobic when you're doing it full-time. Reply 54
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    Rectangle - International_Ad8264 • 1d Sometimes it's easier to solve problems by talking them over in person compared to video chat or teams messages ... Reply 456 56
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    Art - Warm Objective4162 - 20h Training new people is absolute hell virtually. 425

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