Well, having the office was nice because I like my colleagues. I'm lucky in that regard though, and as nice as it was to socialise at work, working from home is nicer. Not to mention much much cheaper by every metric. In conclusion fuck ever going back to the office, thank you for coming to my TEDx Talk.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 48 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I personally like it too, but not daily. I average 1-2 days in office now and it's healthy for me. See my coworkers, they know my name, we catch up, have our meetings, then I go home for a few days again. I've just learned everyone is different, and the company definitely shouldn't be telling people how to work, people are grownups and can decide themselves. (And if they can't, then fire them instead of punishing everyone).

However for this meme, another great way to get people off the roads would be....... trains

[–] KGB@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I like trains.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today -4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I like freight trains, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere that commuter trains would make sense.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why in the world not? I specifically moved to be close to mine, I hate driving for my commute

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Passenger trains can only operate efficiently in areas of extremely high population density. If I'm living somewhere serviced by trains, then everywhere I go, I'll be in a crowd.

I'm enough of an introvert that this sounds like an extraordinarily uncomfortable proposition. I'd need an exorbitant financial benefit to even consider it, and that's not going to happen. Instead, I'm expected to pay a very high premium for the "privilege" of being miserable everywhere I go.

No thanks, I'll stay out here in the sticks.

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're absolutely spot on, and it's evidenced by house prices here in the UK where they're next to or near a rail line.

They are noisy fuggers and people do not like living by them.

[–] ECB@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

Unless you are near a train stop when it skyrockets

[–] ECB@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Small towns built around a train station are absolutely lovely though

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I suspect those are mostly outposts. Rail junctions. Water stops for the old steam trains. Remote mining towns. Places that either provided services to railway operation, or primarily needed freight service rather than passenger.

And I agree: I would love to live in a small railroad town. But I would move out long before that town had enough people to justify commuter rail service.

[–] ECB@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

Ah, no in europe where I live is fairly normal for rail service to small villages even.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Some people don't have the space at home to set up a working area and really want to just go to an office that their employer pays for, and that's fine.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is why coworking spaces exist.

I don't know in other countries but it is working quite well in France, you can get a subscription to the closest working space and have a desk, meeting rooms ... To work remotely.

I like that it gives a separation between home and work but without long commute.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This, and I do a lot of gaming on my pc, have a nice setup etc, usually not great trying to work there (don't have space for another desk and can't really justify having two sets of monitors, keyboard etc

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why do you need all that? I have my work laptop sitting at the back of my desk. Most monitors have two inputs. I've got an older 1080 with HMDI+DVI and a newer 1440p with DP/2xHDMI.

So I have the laptop in HDMI on both screens (it needed a USBC to HDMI cable for one of the outputs), and a simple USB3 switch for the mouse+keyboard.

So when I'm working I fire up the laptop, switch the USB over to that and swap the screens to the HDMI inputs. When I'm done working I can fire up the desktop, swap inputs and USB and in seconds I'm switched over.

I've been doing it this way for years and years now.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's normally what I do, the problem is the context for me, I sometimes prefer just sitting across the room with a laptop so I'm in a slightly different environment

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 7 months ago

It can help draw a line I'd agree, but I've gotten used to it now I think. I used to have it worse. I operated out of the bedroom for the first few years I was remote and that wasn't good at all. The new house had a bedroom that was really too small to be a bedroom. So it became an office room.