Anyone else bothered by all these “100% WFH” post pandemic advocates?

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We’re bothered by people who would rather commute for an hour each way just to do the same type of work. For “culture”

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Our office is starting to open up and they are a few advocating to come in. But the masses are not following and personally, unless it is required, I’m all about this WFH life.

In the beginning, it was tough and yes my days were long. A year later, I’ve like others, figured out the balance and have realized there are more important things in our lives than small talk and banter with coworkers. Love not commuting to work.

I’ll come in a few times per month for social events but I can let go of the daily water cooler experience.

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I can't wait to get back on a plane and travel every week. However, in no way would I want to force others who don't. If this last year has taught us anything, its that we can be much more flexible and can accommodate a wide array of working models. I hope that I and others who want to travel get to, and those that want to work from home or some mix are able to.

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Um I make friends at work. And it’s awesome to be able to meet people in various walks of life from across the world and country at work. If I’m going out at home to make friends it’s not as diverse a group of people.

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I've been industry for a while. I was 40% WFH pre-pandemic and will be quite happy to stay 100% WFH once the office opens back up. My team is geographically dispersed and out of the 40+ of us, only myself and two other people are based out of HQ, and neither of the non-C level folks above me are based out of HQ, either.

Literally just about zero reason for me to go into the office. 🤷

I'm quite happy to be able to do daycare dropoffs every day and save 90-120 minutes commuting.

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Not at all. I’m all for WFH the rest of my working days. I’m just as productive from home and generally don’t care for the “pretentiousness” of on-site consultants and clients. I’m me. What you see is what you get.

Besides I don’t know if I have any real clothes that still fit.

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Gonna have to agree with OP. 100% WFH blows for the younger, single crowd.

- 7 AM-11PM “always on” time (with travel we at least had moments to disconnect and breathe while commuting).
- About $12-20K/yr in comp lost via points, expensed food, flex travel, etc.
- Contrary to most people here, I ate much healthier on the road since I didn’t have to worry about money ($100/meal) and could choose healthier options; nowadays don’t even have time to cook a good meal and skimp out on quality due to personal cost
- Can no longer visit friends for free or go int’l for a weekend via flex travel
- Probably won’t be able to renew my Diamond, Ambassador, and Globalist statuses
- Client relationship building taking a huge hit
- Spending more time coaching analysts when it would be MUCH easier in person (seeing noticeable drop in new analyst quality lately)
- Many friends leaving bc workload has become much worse than before due to some of the above

These are just a few reasons off top of my head. Actively looking to leave to industry bc don’t think we’ll come back to normal anytime soon.

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No.

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No

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Their preference doesn’t bother me, what bothers me is if a company only listens to one preference vs another. I want flexibility to choose home or office, or a hybrid model that lets you do both. My client followed a mainly remote work and office for meetings model before Covid, I’ve done this for many years and I would have a very hard time if I never got the chance to go into an office or have an in person meeting ever.

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I don’t think so, the survey at my firm listed them as separate options…other companies too…that’s how they got the stats. (What you said doesn’t make sense, 100% remote doesn’t mean 100% flexibility if someone wants a hybrid model) lol

I’m from NZ and we were only in lockdown for 6 weeks before returning to normality and slowly everyone getting back to the office. The majority couldn’t wait to get back to it for a variety of reasons. I’m really surprised that there are so many that want to keep WFH, I honestly would associate it with longer lockdowns in UK, US etc and getting use to this way of working. You really do miss out on a lot WFH, socially and opportunity wise

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I wanna WFH forever and I feel bad for anyone who has a sad enough life to wanna go back to the office to feel engaged.

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It’s not that I completely dread going into the office, but with more 100% WFH opportunities, I can snag a WFH job at my same pay rate and move to a LCOL city. In the past, if I wanted to move to a cheaper city, in generally meant taking a pay cut as well.

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My position is one where I am more productive at home away from constant interruptions in the open office by people who want to chat. When I do need to collaborate with team mates we do that over Teams whether in the office or at home as we share documents and detailed information. Even in the office we don't go look at the computer screen of the person next to us. My team actually communicates better as we have a larger team chat with managers and team members, a smaller team chat with direct manager and a chat with just our small team and everything is there for us to refer back to later (like shared files and answers to questions). I can see how some work could suffer but I think it's specific to the role and tasks.

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I hope anyone who wants to be 100% remote can be. It should be a choice. Pandemic has proven we don’t need to be in the office. It should be left as a choice IMO

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I’d just like the option for *some* of the workforce to stay remote permanently if they choose. Y’all who can’t wait to get back to the office: you do you. Let the rest of us do us.

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nope, I'm one of them ... I also think a personal choice should be at least taken into consideration
the office was a toxic place for me. people bothered me and took credit for my work and left me little time to focus on my task.

now I'm able to prove that they were the problem and I'm actually producing good results ,plus having more time to focus on other initiatives

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Absolutely not. We prefer 100% WFH and travel only when absolutely necessary such as critical client meetings, milestones, and similar. Neither an hour each way commute nor Mon/Thurs airport scene

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Yes. I think starting to go back post-pandemic would be a sign of positive change because it would show, as a country, that we’ve actually improved our standing amidst COVID. That was the end goal to begin with - to get back to a certain level of normalcy. Anything different would hinder development in ways we’re probably unaware of right now since we’re still living in WFH world

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Implicitly legislating “drudgery” at a corporate level or societal level never works. Defining this “new normal” people will never agree on

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I’d prefer a hybrid model with more WFH than office and client site time.

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No

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I’m happy to leave traveling behind. It’s so 2019. Company culture is a joke.

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I don't know why people are arguing about 100% WFH model. We all know it's going to be some kind of hybrid model where people would be able to choose at most companies. I am not going to be 100% WFH. It's not for me but if some people want to WFH in their underwear for the rest of their life...have at it. I am certainly NOT going to ask my team to travel if they are not comfortable.

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I prefer hybrid but am cool with 100% WFH if there was a way to flag those who abuse the flexibility. Idk how many times I ping people during core business hours and get no response, only to hear some BS excuse later. Why do you have more soccer practices per day than kids, Jan? I need answers.

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On the flipside, there are people who get abused with heavy workload being put on their plate + useless nonstop meetings.

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