Remote Work LOST Here Is The Numbers

"Remote work failed" says Prime, working from home.

I drive an 1hr 1/2 to work to sit in an office by myself. I'm basically a remote commuter.

My biggest problem with an office workplace is the commute. That’s 2 to 3 hours where you can’t do anything. You’re stressed, have bad emotions about a traffic jam, and you don’t get paid for your commute or get to count it as work time. It’s lost lifetime, and you don’t get anything back for it. Sure, you can listen to music, a podcast, or an audiobook, but the way home can ruin your day more than anything else.

Return to office would be a deal breaker for me, no lie

I will never return to full time WFO. It's too distracting, it's a waste of time commuting, hot desks suck and lack my preffered periphals and comforts, meetings run longer in person and have greater spinup/spindown time, lunches ABSOLUTELY run longer when you're with colleagues, there's catchups and social stuff and pingpong and guest speakers and on and on and on.... Fuck all that noise. I'm a better worker with less distractions working from my home. If you want social connections get it down at the pub with your mates after work, I'm not here to hang out and contribute to some ephemeral concept like "WORK CULTURE".

I'll compromise. If a boss demands I come into my office, then the work day begins when I leave my house and I'll use Google Maps to be home 8 hours later.

Most office environments are productivity killers, too much noise and too many interruptions, not to mention temperature issues resulting in some people sweating and some freezing.

I think Prime is missing the fact that some people never leave High School and bring those tendencies to the workplace. I've been at a workplace where clique formation and even outright bullying was a real problem, in which case someone who wasn't in the "in-group" probably would feel more "included" if they were allowed to be remote and weren't experiencing those constant non-verbal rejections we all expected to leave behind in our teens. Not to mention if your team is already composed of people working in other global locations, your day is already 100% video meetings. That must feel like its own layer of hell, having to commute 90 minutes into a noisy open-plan office just to have zoom meetings with people in other cities.

The worse part of RTO is the commute. Waste of time, I arrive aggravated, and it takes chunk of time at start and end of the day to either get over the commute or preparing for the commute. Not to mention the added cost of commuting is an instant pay-cut.

Never going to work at an office again, I do more work at home