I find this really interesting. I’m based in the UK and in what is classed as an essential job. So during all of the COVID isolation period I was still going to work, in the same office doing the same thing. I haven’t had a period working from home for a very long time and the idea, whilst appealing in some ways just doesn’t fit how I work today.
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Because I work with customers and they’re naturally spread around geographically, there’s nothing that would do it. There’s just no reason.
They would need to build an office within a ten minute walk from my home.
Desperation. I'd have to be fired from my job and begging for work.
Exceptionally flexible working hours (so I don’t have to go in or leave during rush hour) along with an exceptional increase in pay and a commitment that time in office would actually be used for productive time (any meetings can be done remotely and often are done with remote members anyway).
Actually, as I think about it, the only thing that would lure me back to the office would be an open door policy related to being there, where I’d see myself there maybe 5% of the time. shrug
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A 50% salary increase. I lose hours a week commuting, thats my life being taken away.
Not to mention getting sick because co-workers come in sick, the loudness of stupid open office spaces, douchebags who wont bathe before work...
The office sucks ass and my house is a much better environment for me working.
A much better setup than my home one. A private office with sound dampening. Dual 4K+ monitors. A large wall mounted TV for casting training videos or collaborating. A coffee and desert cart.
Better pay, time for travel calculated in work hours, better company food, better work desk.
Double my salary. Even then It'd be tough. Working from home has so many benefits. Plus my entire team is in a different state, so going into the office would be pointless.
Back to the office? In my country almost nobody left the office, even when the pandemic was at its peak lol.
What country?
Mexico.
Nothing. Reduce my hours, pay me less, but for take wfh away or I'm done. Nothing can compete with wfh.
What would bring me in? My commute counts as working hours. Fully pay commuting cost. My goals lessened to make up for the lower productivity in the office. Private office and private bathroom. Free healthy meals delivered. That might bring me back.
- 4 day work week
- 6 hour work day
- 120k min salary
- Lunch provided
- Home cleaning service provided though benefit plan
- I would need an office (no cube/open concept)
- Casual dress code
Why does Windows Update take weeks for you? Even on 1990’s dial-up, the typical 2-3 GB of patches would only take 5 days to download.
I have no idea. It is funneled through something the IT department setup. I think they fucked it up.
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