I didn’t fully understand the glory of working from home until I did it on a snow day.
Removing the commute was an obvious, expected benefit. But turning off the camera and doing laundry or cooking lunch while in one of my multiple daily conference calls was amazing. I just had the meeting in my headphones and chimed in when needed. And it annoys me that can’t be my regular routine.
I drive 3-4 hours a day in traffic to sit in a (very nice) office where 95% of my work is remote work using cloud-based software and attending Teams meetings.
But because once a week or so someone may walk into city hall and ask for me instead of sending an email or making a phone call I’m expected to be in the office. Which is doubly annoying since most of the time they get turned away because I’m already in a separate online meeting when they show up.
I do legitimately have to attend public meetings a few evenings a month. I’d be so happy to compromise and go into the office on days with public hearings or when I need to visit a site, but work remote the remaining 80-90% of the time. Hell - I’d even trade working an extra hour a day while remote to do it. It’ll still save me time versus driving.
I’m a strong believer in requiring all office/majority computer using roles to be at least hybrid if for no other reasons than to take cars off the road, but the societal benefits of mass remote work are immense.
I’ve worked remotely more than not since 2020 (and that’s with 5 job changes since 2020 somehow) and if I got to pick, I’d work a hybrid role where I go to the nice office and bullshit with my coworkers about all the little things that weren’t worth writing an email or Teams message about a few days a month, then go home and crank out the real work the rest of the time. And with kids, they clearly appreciate me being at home more than at the office even if I do have to shoe them away fairly frequently.
I didn’t fully understand the glory of working from home until I did it on a snow day.
Removing the commute was an obvious, expected benefit. But turning off the camera and doing laundry or cooking lunch while in one of my multiple daily conference calls was amazing. I just had the meeting in my headphones and chimed in when needed. And it annoys me that can’t be my regular routine.
I drive 3-4 hours a day in traffic to sit in a (very nice) office where 95% of my work is remote work using cloud-based software and attending Teams meetings.
But because once a week or so someone may walk into city hall and ask for me instead of sending an email or making a phone call I’m expected to be in the office. Which is doubly annoying since most of the time they get turned away because I’m already in a separate online meeting when they show up.
I do legitimately have to attend public meetings a few evenings a month. I’d be so happy to compromise and go into the office on days with public hearings or when I need to visit a site, but work remote the remaining 80-90% of the time. Hell - I’d even trade working an extra hour a day while remote to do it. It’ll still save me time versus driving.
I’m a strong believer in requiring all office/majority computer using roles to be at least hybrid if for no other reasons than to take cars off the road, but the societal benefits of mass remote work are immense.
I’ve worked remotely more than not since 2020 (and that’s with 5 job changes since 2020 somehow) and if I got to pick, I’d work a hybrid role where I go to the nice office and bullshit with my coworkers about all the little things that weren’t worth writing an email or Teams message about a few days a month, then go home and crank out the real work the rest of the time. And with kids, they clearly appreciate me being at home more than at the office even if I do have to shoe them away fairly frequently.