Lol at people thinking a 'hybrid office' is salvation...
“It’s the psychological shift – the change of setting every day – that’s so tiring; this constant feeling of never being settled, stressed and my productive home working always being disrupted.”
many workers report that hybrid is emotionally draining. In a recent global study by employee engagement platform Tinypulse, more than 80% of people leaders reported that such a setup is emotionally exhausting"
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220120-why-hybrid-work-is-emotionally-exhausting
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The only people who want to return to office are the people who’ve excelled because of raw charisma and don’t have any real skills
SM1 I thought charisma is the one thing we're good at... Clearly you haven't met CEO Dan
Rising Star
Im sure you can find reports of every option being ‘exhausting’. We should move to ‘go to the office when you want’. Problem solved.
Also this hybrid being exhausting is just BS.
Agree with do what you want, but that's very far from what many execs are pushing, esp in banking.
I think 100% WFH is going to leave many people disengaged
The problem is not having to go to the office at all, it's going to the office to do the same things you would do at home, working alone, just to satisfy a bureaucratic requirement to come in X hours a week.
I've worked in transportation, where transportation planners just fucking love the idea of people choosing their transport mode (walk, bike, car, etc) for each trip.
Problem is, the world isn't a bunch of transport planners. It's stressful to think about what mode to use when, it's much easier to just have a default and a backup. This makes it hard for people to say, use public transit some of the time, when the level of personal investment to use it is high when you use it infrequently.
I think the same thing will happen with the office and wfh. We don't want to chart a new route every week.
For myself I see the office as primary for meetings, and home primary for actual solitary work. The boundaries are clear and I don't have to worry about controlling my work environment while still seeing colleagues regularly.
Client site consulting is like the hybrid model but worse. So if you are / ever were a consultant that traveled to clients sites this would be a much more pleasant, relaxing and easier version of what many of us used to do.
? Client site consulting as I've done it was always in the same place. Not stress of swapping workspaces.
For me, being all one way or the other is emotionally draining. Being in the office every day get super old and tedious but working from home 100% of the time is not great for me either. I need the hybrid approach. The human interaction and managing of relationships is what drives me. I do not feel the same connection with individuals through a computer that I do in person. Do I want to see them everyday? No probably not. But I’d really enjoy being able to work in person with my team more.
I have been remote for over 3 years. I love it.
It allows me to spend more time with my son and travel