Remote Work Won | Prime Reacts

95% of in office conversations: "dude have you played <new game> yet?" "what do you guys want for lunch?" *team spends 15 minutes sharing panda related memes*

The commute is the nail in the coffin for in office work. I save several thousand English pounds and 500+ hours of travel time every year. Not to mention the hassle of cancellations and delays. Do not miss standing out in the pouring rain and freezing cold.

Me spending 3 hours per day commuting to office just to attend zoom calls with my colleagues who are all from another timezone

The thing for me is that my in-office days are a hassle and don't add any value. Why does it matter if I go into the office to sit on MS-Teams calls, or if I stay home and sit on MS-Teams calls? Only 1 person on my team is local. Everyone else is full-time remote from other states.

I can't relate to a lot of the takes here. I've been remote working for 4 years now and I cannot see myself going back. When you said towards the beginning that there are things in the office that happen that you can't replicate at home, I actively tried to think of something like that. When I work in office, I collaborate less with coworkers, I get less work done, and I have to commute an hour each way + figure out what to eat for lunch + somehow avoid people who come to my desk to bother me while I am focused on something. When I am at home, I get to design what my workday looks like and choose when to interact with distractions. When I am in the office, I am completely beholden to whoever wants to walk up to me and ask for a favor which happens quite often. Maybe it is because my office sucks/my company is terrible at setting up a good environment for work. Honestly, after the topic of Faang came up and you mentioned Sushi, I think it shows that your view on in office work is maybe skewed. Think about all the people who are working in poorly lit remote factory-esc buildings. I never worked anywhere where they were feeding me free sushi for lunch, and I don't plan on it. I am a game dev, and up until remote work, I've worked in some shitty environments where I felt uncomfortable the whole time.

For me as a dad of a young child, there is nothing but upsides to remote work. I try to go to the office, but I just can't feel any benefit to driving 2 hours instead of being with my kid for an extra 2 hours or just getting bit more sleep. There is seriously only one other person I ever speak to in the office and rest of my team is in another country so we have to voice chat anyway, and that requires to find a damn room instead of just connecting and chatting immediatly ...

Fast unrequested history fact: remote work is way older than "since the 90s". Some years ago, talking about a revolt in a conference, an historian very famous in Italy explained how in the 14th century in Florence it was common use for wool industrial to distribute their unfinisced work home to home to a network of workers complete a particular task. The wool was then collected and given to anoter worker to continue the process. Doing the work somewhere other than home didn't provide any benefit, so it was not pratice

So I was explaining to someone what office life is like as a dev, we sit there in an open plan office each with headphones on listening to music. But do you discuss things, I was asked? Oh yes, frequently. How? Using slack. Absolute madness.

On the day my team was forced to come back to the office, my manager decided to have an impromptu meeting to catch up on a few things. While notmally we would all just hop into teams and, you know, have the meeting, this time we had to find a conference room ro meet in. In order to have a meeting in one of the conference rooms, we couldn't just walk into an empty room, we had to book the room so we could make sure not to get kicked out. In order to book the room, we had to set up a teams meeting and copy it into the office calendar, and list the specific conference room as the location, and then when we got into the room we all had to accept and join the virtual teams meeting in order to be allowed to have our in person meeting. Needless to say, that whole process was sooooooo much more efficient and beneficial to how we have been conducting meetings previously from home

don't give up, don't go to the office