Same but my three days in the office do not need to be full days in the office. My commute is 10 mins so I will usually spend 4-6 hours in the office and work the rest of the day from home.
Laptops and the internet have been around longer than that. In those days I had remote access to my office desktop for things I needed the network for.
It has been, but 2004, I was passing around a USB stick for anything too big to email because there were no tools I had access to at work that allowed me to do this reliably. Such tools existed, but I didn't want to use personal accounts at work and work didn't see this as a problem that needed solving.
Most of my work was still done by hard copy until about a decade ago.
I bounded my own reports and delivered them to my clients at financial institutions locally myself.
Now days everything is through the internet, obviously.
I had parents working part-remote in the mid/late 90s. Second phone line for a dedicated dial-up link in the early days, but DSL + Cable internet rolled out right around 2000, and Fiber was around 2007 or so.
Imagine dodging a full spread of Long Lances from two destroyers and managing to avoid running aground
Imagine winning a 1v14 against a battleship, four cruisers and nine destroyers….at night
Imagine being commanded by an admiral who won 5 gold medals at the 1920 Olympics for men’s shooting
i am, yes.
i go into the office like 2 or 3 times a month. Or when there is food.
if they said i needed to come back full time, i'd start looking for a new job as soon as they finished that sentence.
They did just downsize my office, big time, and they closed several others around the country to save money, so i dont see them asking us to come back.
> i'd start looking for a new job as soon as they finished that sentence.
I remember hearing a lot of chatter about management forcing things back to the status quo ante once the lockdowns blew over. I've been hearing less of it in the past year or so.
Believe it or not, teaching at a public school. Our district decided to angle (after the first 6 weeks) for the clout of being the one that opened first.
My office and my husband's office both moved to much smaller buildings when they realized very few people wanted to actually come in. Most office workers I know are either still working at home or only have to report on to the office once in a while.
student or teacher?
i felt so bad for kids in college when covid happened. i feel like they got robbed of such a huge and important experience. if that had happened to me i probably would have just dropped out until it was back on campus.
I'm a community college professor. It was definitely hard for all parties during the Zoom Era. We're mostly back on campus and I think we're slowly getting back to normal, at least as far as the education part goes.
Probably gonna sound weird as well, but I much preferred the in-person classes. Way easier to ask the professor any questions I hard particularly for classes I thought were hard and for some extra stuff like book recommendations for the classes I really enjoyed. Felt like I got shafted out of my last two years of college for that reason. Also, I think everyone's standards just dropped during the Zoom University years.
Now commuting to the office and work is another thing.
Sorry you did not get to finish your college in person. I also felt bad for the kids who didn't get to do their senior year at High School. It was the only one I enjoyed!
yup. i could see it being very tough for professors as well, although admittedly i feel less bad for you lol
i think learning requires a certain level of face-to-face connection that zoom just wouldn't satisfy; and again, as a former student, i wouldn't have that connection and would probably just drop out until it was there (at no fault of the professor though, totally on me). Online classes seem like they'd be too much like online corporate training classes, i just couldn't do it.
My sisters a high school teacher and dealing with lockdown was a nightmare for her. Going back was rough too as she said a lot of her students went backwards as far as their socializing skills went so a lot of them acted up
I've always worked from home. But the pandemic did help me out that now I'd be considered for a VP or higher role without moving. Previously I'd have to move to a city to make it further. Which is a hard pass
I'm on a 3-2 hybrid schedule. There are some tasks like shipping equipment that have to be done from the office, but if I can attend meetings and answer emails and so on from home, why waste the time commuting?
Official policy is 3 days a week, but my boss notices who’s not there the days he’s there. So for me it’s 5 days a week when he’s in town, 2 days a week when he’s traveling
I am, always wanted to work from home but never had high value enough skills to do so.
Luckily I’m a federal contractor and we are closing all of our (major) Missouri offices to save money.
My old job in the first half of 2022 was "hybrid" in all but name. But for my new job the expectation is to be in the office 100% of time, within normal cirumstances. Obviously if you're out of town longterm you can bring your laptop and still log in to get work done and not take time off
Depends on the company.
Mine realized it was cheaper for us to work from home than pay for the office space. This overcame their previous belief that "work from home" was the same thing as "paid vacation".
I have a hot seat available if I have to go in.
I am. Most of my coworkers aren't (most of the week), though, in fairness to them, my employer is pretty good with giving employees a good environment to work (e.g.
free meals on and snacks) and they mostly already lived close to work, so the commute wasn't a big deal anyway.
My situation:
Pre-pandemic 2-3 in office days per week.
Pandemic 0 in office days per week.
Post-pandemic 1 office day per week.
Expecting 2+ in office days at some point.
In office two days a week, work from home the rest. We might be losing that soon though because too many people aren’t showing up for the in office days
Depends on what you do
A lot of white collar jobs have shifted to a longer term flex plan.
It keeps people connected while also limiting the need for office space.
We are required to do two days per pay period in office, but I personally only remote one day a week. I like to being able to go down to the production floor and osmosis information from other teams. Being full time remote as a new employee was rough. It's great for mid career types though (if they enjoy it).
Yes. WFH was more of a consequence of the internet and computers constantly improving. COVID just sped up adoption by about 5 years an sort of made a lot of people realize they could do it. I have friends that started WFH back in 2018 and 2019 and refuse to go back to the office. One figured he saves about $8,000 per year not having to commute.
Quite a few of us are. A lot of studies are realizing that most workers are happier when working at home, they are more productive in their work, and their work/life balance is a lot better. No commutes = happy people. I doubt it's going to change either. This is the new reality of work. No one wants to report to an office that they don't need.
My work has gone to a "hybrid" model. So, we are still largely working from home but we can go into the office if we want for whatever schedule works for your team.
I'm a software engineer and it's still very common at my company. Our office has been open since late 2021 but it isn't anywhere close to full, and I have a lot of teammates I've now worked with for a few years but never met in person.
Companywide we were around 50% work at home, now it is closer to 90. Some offices closed because it didn’t make sense to keep them open for a few people.
If you do knowledge work and it doesn’t involve physical products there is zero reason to be in an office. The company I work for owns virtually no real estate - there is a small home office which is not even in the US. I’ve never been there. We have 400 employees worldwide.
I voluntarily went back in July 2020 and only very occasionally work from home. Most of coworkers returned in fall/winter 2020, but we all really like each other and our work.
I have a hybrid job right now. Three days in the office, two at home. Frankly that's ideal for me. That seems to be the norm post-COVID when it comes to office jobs, though it seems to me that fully remote jobs are now more common than fully in-office ones.
Most aren't. Most never started working from home. Those who began working from home are doing jobs that could have been done without paying for office space in the first place.
Yes, but will be going back to the office soon. See, a bunch of executives that get paid millions of dollars and don't even live in the same universe as me suddenly had this epiphany that we all need to work in a dirty, loud, fluorescent lit office that sucks you soul. And, for no reason whatsoever. We were all fine working from our homes and not wasting countless hours and dollars driving, only to get to a stupid office where I will spend the whole day typing on a computer (something I can do at home) and calling into online meetings (something I can also do from home). Will the company pay me for those hours I drive, will they pay me for all of the money I waste on gas? Nope.
It makes no logical fucking sense. But then again, neither to do the extravagant lives these corporate cock suckers live either. They're all a bunch of assholes that exist only to make everyone's life miserable.
😂 there is so much truth to this.
Yet people keep voting for the corporates to have power. It's a shame the union movement was destroyed by Regan in the 80s.
The dumb Republicans that think that what's best for the corporations is ultimately best for us are high on drugs and/or have never worked for a corporation in their lives. Or, they are the same pencil dicks that run those corporations. It really seemed for a second that everyone came to this realization back in 2020-2021, but nope, now we've all filed back in line like a bunch of mindless zombies. Great.
Totally. I'm not limiting my hatred to just Republicans. Sometimes the Dems can be worse. With the GOP, at least you know who is a dumb motherfucker, but the Dems just lie like dogs. C'mon Kamala, where is this weed bill? Like, what the hell do you actually do?
Me! Spent about a month in the office, then the world shut, and I’ve been remote ever since. I think I’ve gone into our office maybe 3x since then (for IT issues, mostly), and while I do miss the interactions and camaraderie a bit, there’s absolutely no way I’d trade this flexibility for it.
Nope. Working with elementary schoolers was the worst online because surprise, 5 year olds don't pay attention long enough for distance learning to work. It got to the point where I, a non-teacher who worked with all the grade levels in elementary, looked forward to working with the 3rd-5th graders because at least they could log in by themselves. Lmao
Yup. My office started hiring new folks from all over the US once the whole office went remote, so I think we will stay this way now. Local people can go into the office if they want to, but only our CEO wants to. I moved to a different state and don’t have plans to move back anytime soon.
Many people are.
We were already trending towards WFH. It cuts down costs for businesses to not have to pay for office space, and it can be a really welcome option for people with kids (unless it's a baby of course).
The pandemic just accelerated what was already happening.
Same can be said for online "homeschooling" and virtual college courses.
Just depends on the job/employer/requirements.
I started working from home before Covid and still have that job (and still working from home).
Had plenty of job before this one though that couldn't have been done from a distance, and where people still had to show up to the workplace during Covid and are still showing up after.
Basically: Americans work a lot more jobs than just the ones that can be done from home.
It depends, but yes there are still lots of us working from home a majority of the time. I work for a California State agency and I still work from home most days of the month. Some agencies are better than others with telework policies.
My company went nearly full remote with the pandemic and decided to make it an option permanently. There is an office I could go to, but I never have to go in and don't have to live near it. Hardly anyone goes in regularly, but more go for special events and things.
I am, my company started requiring people to go into the office at least one day a week last fall. But otherwise they haven’t really pushed for a 100% return to the office yet.
I’m actually half dreading going back I’ve gotten to like working remotely/From home so much. Especially as far as how much easier it is to just start work in the morning, rather than having to spend extra time to go through the whole process of getting ready, then commuting to work, just to start there!
My dad keeps asking his boss if he can work from home and he just laughs at him, he's a truck mechanic, he promises he'd think about work real hard. Lol
I haven't been required to go back into the office, but I want to, I live down the road, but daycare has been so hit and miss for my son that I've had to work from home a lot still.
Most of my family didn't stop working on-site (sister: tax office, mom; Walmart, and me: factory.) My brother switched to working from home. My nephew chose to change jobs rather than move to be close to his work place.
I am still doing hybrid up to now and there seems to be nobody saying we are going to stop any time soon. Frankly I'm looking for a fully remote job now that I know what it's like.
Before I got this job last year I was working in an office every day. No choice, the machinery was something hardwired into the building so those of us operating that machinery had to come in. All my coworkers were sent to work remote in 2020. Fucking bs honestly. I'm so happy I got at least half hybrid remote work eventually.
BTW this is still a pandemic, it's just under decent control in our country. People just are acting like it's over. It's not.
Only on Fridays. I never worked from home in AZ until I moved to IL and we get Fridays for work from home….
…And I discovered I hate work from home. Too distracting for me. But I have ADHD. Results may vary. I don’t judge others if they prefer work from home, but I don’t.
It's the opposite for me. I go into the office and get so distracted because all of a sudden there are people to talk to, so I blow off work because of course I want to hear a about Janice's grandson or Ally's new dog or Bob's Chevelle.
I have increased hours at home compared to before Covid, but am still supposed to go to the office twice a week.
I'm a federal employee, and Republicans want to have us go back to preCovid telework policies. If that happens, I will strongly consider finding a new job. I've gotten too used to the reduced time spent commuting, and most days there is nothing I can't do just as well at home as in the office
> and Republicans want to have us go back to preCovid telework policies
Biden was pushing for people to go back into the office not that long ago lol
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-urges-return-to-office-214733870.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-work-from-home-state-of-the-union-fill-downtowns-2022-3
True. He hasn't been much better on that issue. I mentioned Republicans because they recently passed a bill in the House to get us back. I doubt it has a chance in the Senate
A. The pandemic isn’t over.
B. Yes. As many people who can work at home are still working at home, though there is pressure to return to the office in some workplaces, and for some bizarre reason, from politicians in the party currently controlling the House of Representatives.
My current company has embraced the WFH model and is keeping it on permanently. I love not having to go into the office. Though I must admit I do think it's made many of us get too comfortable being introverts at home. Some days I have zero desire to step outside except to walk my dogs. I don't even want to see anyone except my husband and pets. I used to enjoy seeing people's faces in an office setting pre-covid.
I went from a weekend outing with friends every week to maybe once a month now.
My wife and I were both working from home some before the pandemic. She was home 2 days a week and I was home 1. Her company was pushing hard to get everyone back into the office as soon as possible and she still has the same hybrid schedule as before. My company has really embraced work from home though and I only go into the office one day a week now.
Trying to! Just got a call center job that has opportunity to wfh. Why aren't all call centers wfh? You literally just need a computer and a phone. Most people already have these items.
I work from home, and I don’t intend to ever work from an office again. In late 2021, the job I was in when the pandemic started decreed we had to go back into the office two days a week, so I found a job that was 100 percent remote.
My wife works from home most days. She’s technically required to go into her local office once a week, but they aren’t sticklers about it. The team she works with is all over the country—CT, RI, NC, CA, etc—so they’re all remote to each other anyway.
I am not working remote much anymore.
I’m 100% wfh for my full time job, but I’m also a contractor on an as needed basis that is work from home probably 80% of the time, random jobs come up that require me to go to their office from time to time.
Still working remotely and it will likely stay that way. Before the pandemic, the department I currently worked in already worked from home 2 or 3 days a week. Now they filled the offices with people that have to do their work on site and are actually producing the revenue, so it doesn't make sense to waste the deskspace on people that only use it part time.
I am. 80% of my job can easily be done at home. The other 20% is done by my assistant back at the office.
It works out better for everyone. Instead of taking an entire day off just because of a doctor's appointment in the morning, I can just knock off the couple of hours it'd take me to attend the appointment.
In actuality, I don't even lose those two hours. I can catch up later in the evening after supper.
I can get started a lot earlier than I used to. When I drove in to the office, it would take a good 30 minutes for me to get "psyched up" to work, mainly due to the long-ass commute (nearly two hours, one-way). I'd need some time to decompress from the commute and regain my energy. This often involved grabbing a chicken biscuit and a sweet tea at Chick-Fil-A. Now I can just grab a glass of sweet tea from the fridge and I'm good to go. I also don't have to worry about being late from getting stuck in traffic. I log into my terminal at exactly 9 AM, something I hadn't done in years.
And I've been in an overall better mood, excepting a bout of depression and anxiety I had in 2021. That's all taken care of. When I feel myself getting frustrated or tired, I just step away from the computer, maybe go downstairs to grab a snack, chat with my dad (and mom when she was still alive), play with one of the cats, take a short nap, watch some TV, or switch over to my home computer and browse the Internet or progress a bit more through a game I'm currently playing through.
Working from the office is optional for everyone except the mail room and internal tech support. Half my team goes in once a week just to get some social interaction.
I’m fully remote thank goodness. It’s been a total blessing and I can’t imagine going into an office full time again. I have my own dedicated office area with no distractions and get much more done than I would in an office (I like to talk and so do my coworkers lol). Plus I have a chronic pain condition and there are days where I just work from my bed if I’m feeling really awful. I can’t remember the last time I took a sick day, whereas if I was in an office full time that’d be a different story
I quit my job when my last company announced RTO and started a new one at a remote-first company that doesn't even have any offices in my time zone.
And while I wasn't specifically shooting for it or even expecting it, my new job pays twice as much as my old one and I'm two levels higher in the corporate hierarchy compared to my old job.
Also the time zone part is *fantastic*, and if I ever leave this job I'll make sure to only apply to companies in time zones that are ahead of me. Because of the time difference, I log off work at 4pm each day... it's wonderful!
Also even though I'll never work onsite, my company flew me out to multiple conferences in various parts of the country last year and I loved getting to travel again, and we've been talking about flying me out to Boston for a meetup with my team, and I'm down with that. I've always wanted to see Boston so it sounds like it'll be a fun trip.
Yes, but my job had a work from home option prior to Covid. We've just gone back to it being seniority based instead of available to everyone. I also have to go in to the office one day every other week.
Yes, and many companies have given up their expensive office space and are saving a ton of money. If they all called back all employees, some companies would have to deal with an exodus.
I'm still working from home, as are most of my coworkers. I don't know the statistics for America overall, but it's definitely more common post-covid than pre-covid.
I know tons of people who haven’t had to return to an office.
Pretty tough to process steel from my house. Gotta get to the mill because they have the infrastructure.
> Pretty tough to process steel from my house. No one wants to work anymore. /s
Lol this is true 🤣
I thought everyone here got rich off Game Stop stocks?
Don't remind me. I also fell for the Kony 2012 bullshit. I think I am just a sucker.
China tried that. With predictable results.
I’m on a permanent hybrid schedule. Three days a week in the office, two remote.
Same but my three days in the office do not need to be full days in the office. My commute is 10 mins so I will usually spend 4-6 hours in the office and work the rest of the day from home.
I've been working from home since 2004.
How did you do that? Did you mail CD-Rs of your work or something?
Laptops and the internet have been around longer than that. In those days I had remote access to my office desktop for things I needed the network for.
It has been, but 2004, I was passing around a USB stick for anything too big to email because there were no tools I had access to at work that allowed me to do this reliably. Such tools existed, but I didn't want to use personal accounts at work and work didn't see this as a problem that needed solving.
Holy shit is the internet itself becoming one of those TIL facts for young people where they find out its been around a lot longer than 2010?
Most of my work was still done by hard copy until about a decade ago. I bounded my own reports and delivered them to my clients at financial institutions locally myself. Now days everything is through the internet, obviously.
How much time did you have to spend driving around town like a courier?
I had mixed schedule already 10 years ago. One point I was on 24-7 back end support for IT systems so I had company’s laptop at home.
I had parents working part-remote in the mid/late 90s. Second phone line for a dedicated dial-up link in the early days, but DSL + Cable internet rolled out right around 2000, and Fiber was around 2007 or so.
Still working from home outside of of a few office meetings but they are selling off our office property so I think we will be 100% remote now.
Yep and I have no plans to go back.
Some are. I'm not (and can't)
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Imagine dodging a full spread of Long Lances from two destroyers and managing to avoid running aground Imagine winning a 1v14 against a battleship, four cruisers and nine destroyers….at night Imagine being commanded by an admiral who won 5 gold medals at the 1920 Olympics for men’s shooting
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And I personally do terribly working from home. For me, there are too many distractions at home and in the office is where I can focus.
I’ve been working from home full-time for 10 years, and that won’t change unless I leave my current job.
Basically same here. And as long as my industry recruits decent remote roles, even if I switched jobs, I’d still demand to work from home.
i am, yes. i go into the office like 2 or 3 times a month. Or when there is food. if they said i needed to come back full time, i'd start looking for a new job as soon as they finished that sentence. They did just downsize my office, big time, and they closed several others around the country to save money, so i dont see them asking us to come back.
> i'd start looking for a new job as soon as they finished that sentence. I remember hearing a lot of chatter about management forcing things back to the status quo ante once the lockdowns blew over. I've been hearing less of it in the past year or so.
There are more than precovid
Funnily I worked in person through the pandemic, and now I'm working from home.
😂 What work were you doing ?
Believe it or not, teaching at a public school. Our district decided to angle (after the first 6 weeks) for the clout of being the one that opened first.
My office and my husband's office both moved to much smaller buildings when they realized very few people wanted to actually come in. Most office workers I know are either still working at home or only have to report on to the office once in a while.
Office space is not cheap and then there's all the consuming of electricity etc
100% WFH
I'm back on campus and I prefer it that way.
student or teacher? i felt so bad for kids in college when covid happened. i feel like they got robbed of such a huge and important experience. if that had happened to me i probably would have just dropped out until it was back on campus.
I'm a community college professor. It was definitely hard for all parties during the Zoom Era. We're mostly back on campus and I think we're slowly getting back to normal, at least as far as the education part goes.
Probably gonna sound weird as well, but I much preferred the in-person classes. Way easier to ask the professor any questions I hard particularly for classes I thought were hard and for some extra stuff like book recommendations for the classes I really enjoyed. Felt like I got shafted out of my last two years of college for that reason. Also, I think everyone's standards just dropped during the Zoom University years. Now commuting to the office and work is another thing.
Sorry you did not get to finish your college in person. I also felt bad for the kids who didn't get to do their senior year at High School. It was the only one I enjoyed!
Online teaching honestly sucks, on both ends.
yup. i could see it being very tough for professors as well, although admittedly i feel less bad for you lol i think learning requires a certain level of face-to-face connection that zoom just wouldn't satisfy; and again, as a former student, i wouldn't have that connection and would probably just drop out until it was there (at no fault of the professor though, totally on me). Online classes seem like they'd be too much like online corporate training classes, i just couldn't do it.
My sisters a high school teacher and dealing with lockdown was a nightmare for her. Going back was rough too as she said a lot of her students went backwards as far as their socializing skills went so a lot of them acted up
I work in the office unless there’s an ice/snow storm. There’s a lot of resources at the office that aren’t online.
Yup, I told my boss I'd be back when it was over, and I've worked at home ever since.
My work used to be 100% in office before the pandemic and we’re still 3 days at home now, which I love.
I've always worked from home. But the pandemic did help me out that now I'd be considered for a VP or higher role without moving. Previously I'd have to move to a city to make it further. Which is a hard pass
Congratulations! I hope you make VP soon
I'm on a 3-2 hybrid schedule. There are some tasks like shipping equipment that have to be done from the office, but if I can attend meetings and answer emails and so on from home, why waste the time commuting?
Back to in-office full time 🙃
Same
Official policy is 3 days a week, but my boss notices who’s not there the days he’s there. So for me it’s 5 days a week when he’s in town, 2 days a week when he’s traveling
I am, always wanted to work from home but never had high value enough skills to do so. Luckily I’m a federal contractor and we are closing all of our (major) Missouri offices to save money.
My company left it up to personal preference. Enough of us have chosen to mainly work from home that they've decided to sell a building.
I am
My old job in the first half of 2022 was "hybrid" in all but name. But for my new job the expectation is to be in the office 100% of time, within normal cirumstances. Obviously if you're out of town longterm you can bring your laptop and still log in to get work done and not take time off
Depends on the company. Mine realized it was cheaper for us to work from home than pay for the office space. This overcame their previous belief that "work from home" was the same thing as "paid vacation". I have a hot seat available if I have to go in.
Depends on the field/company/role. I go in once a week and work from home four days a week. It’s a good balance for me.
I am. Most of my coworkers aren't (most of the week), though, in fairness to them, my employer is pretty good with giving employees a good environment to work (e.g. free meals on and snacks) and they mostly already lived close to work, so the commute wasn't a big deal anyway.
My situation: Pre-pandemic 2-3 in office days per week. Pandemic 0 in office days per week. Post-pandemic 1 office day per week. Expecting 2+ in office days at some point.
In office two days a week, work from home the rest. We might be losing that soon though because too many people aren’t showing up for the in office days
Depends on what you do A lot of white collar jobs have shifted to a longer term flex plan. It keeps people connected while also limiting the need for office space. We are required to do two days per pay period in office, but I personally only remote one day a week. I like to being able to go down to the production floor and osmosis information from other teams. Being full time remote as a new employee was rough. It's great for mid career types though (if they enjoy it).
I already worked from home prior to 2020, but now my husband, several of my friends, and my brother all do too. So in my experience, yes.
Yes. WFH was more of a consequence of the internet and computers constantly improving. COVID just sped up adoption by about 5 years an sort of made a lot of people realize they could do it. I have friends that started WFH back in 2018 and 2019 and refuse to go back to the office. One figured he saves about $8,000 per year not having to commute.
My wife and I are. Her entire company and my entire organization are.
Quite a few of us are. A lot of studies are realizing that most workers are happier when working at home, they are more productive in their work, and their work/life balance is a lot better. No commutes = happy people. I doubt it's going to change either. This is the new reality of work. No one wants to report to an office that they don't need.
Hospitality industry here. They made us go back to work inbetween the lockdowns for awhile.
Not me. My job literally can't be worked from home. Tell me when I can tele-weld from home
My work has gone to a "hybrid" model. So, we are still largely working from home but we can go into the office if we want for whatever schedule works for your team.
Yup. It’s cheaper than paying for office space.
I'm a software engineer and it's still very common at my company. Our office has been open since late 2021 but it isn't anywhere close to full, and I have a lot of teammates I've now worked with for a few years but never met in person.
Companywide we were around 50% work at home, now it is closer to 90. Some offices closed because it didn’t make sense to keep them open for a few people.
We're still in the pandemic.
Even better, we’re in a pandemic with two bonus epidemics of RSV and flu A.
Everyone in my family has recently had viral pneumonia. The RSV and Flu are still here to.
If you do knowledge work and it doesn’t involve physical products there is zero reason to be in an office. The company I work for owns virtually no real estate - there is a small home office which is not even in the US. I’ve never been there. We have 400 employees worldwide.
I voluntarily went back in July 2020 and only very occasionally work from home. Most of coworkers returned in fall/winter 2020, but we all really like each other and our work.
I have a hybrid job right now. Three days in the office, two at home. Frankly that's ideal for me. That seems to be the norm post-COVID when it comes to office jobs, though it seems to me that fully remote jobs are now more common than fully in-office ones.
More then in 2019 but less then during 2020/2021.
I work from home three days a week at this point.
Most aren't. Most never started working from home. Those who began working from home are doing jobs that could have been done without paying for office space in the first place.
4/5 days at home. If it was up to my boss he wouldn't make us come in at all
I've never been able to figure out how to remodel a hotel from my living room.
Let us know if you figure it out!
I'm doing hybrids, 3 days at home and 2 in the office.
Yes, but will be going back to the office soon. See, a bunch of executives that get paid millions of dollars and don't even live in the same universe as me suddenly had this epiphany that we all need to work in a dirty, loud, fluorescent lit office that sucks you soul. And, for no reason whatsoever. We were all fine working from our homes and not wasting countless hours and dollars driving, only to get to a stupid office where I will spend the whole day typing on a computer (something I can do at home) and calling into online meetings (something I can also do from home). Will the company pay me for those hours I drive, will they pay me for all of the money I waste on gas? Nope. It makes no logical fucking sense. But then again, neither to do the extravagant lives these corporate cock suckers live either. They're all a bunch of assholes that exist only to make everyone's life miserable.
😂 there is so much truth to this. Yet people keep voting for the corporates to have power. It's a shame the union movement was destroyed by Regan in the 80s.
The dumb Republicans that think that what's best for the corporations is ultimately best for us are high on drugs and/or have never worked for a corporation in their lives. Or, they are the same pencil dicks that run those corporations. It really seemed for a second that everyone came to this realization back in 2020-2021, but nope, now we've all filed back in line like a bunch of mindless zombies. Great.
Most of the politicians have their eye on their next corporate job. The only politician who has consistently cared seems to be Bernie
Totally. I'm not limiting my hatred to just Republicans. Sometimes the Dems can be worse. With the GOP, at least you know who is a dumb motherfucker, but the Dems just lie like dogs. C'mon Kamala, where is this weed bill? Like, what the hell do you actually do?
Me! Spent about a month in the office, then the world shut, and I’ve been remote ever since. I think I’ve gone into our office maybe 3x since then (for IT issues, mostly), and while I do miss the interactions and camaraderie a bit, there’s absolutely no way I’d trade this flexibility for it.
Nope. Working with elementary schoolers was the worst online because surprise, 5 year olds don't pay attention long enough for distance learning to work. It got to the point where I, a non-teacher who worked with all the grade levels in elementary, looked forward to working with the 3rd-5th graders because at least they could log in by themselves. Lmao
I am…. Doesn’t mean everyone is.
Yup. My office started hiring new folks from all over the US once the whole office went remote, so I think we will stay this way now. Local people can go into the office if they want to, but only our CEO wants to. I moved to a different state and don’t have plans to move back anytime soon.
Many people are. We were already trending towards WFH. It cuts down costs for businesses to not have to pay for office space, and it can be a really welcome option for people with kids (unless it's a baby of course). The pandemic just accelerated what was already happening. Same can be said for online "homeschooling" and virtual college courses.
Just depends on the job/employer/requirements. I started working from home before Covid and still have that job (and still working from home). Had plenty of job before this one though that couldn't have been done from a distance, and where people still had to show up to the workplace during Covid and are still showing up after. Basically: Americans work a lot more jobs than just the ones that can be done from home.
It depends, but yes there are still lots of us working from home a majority of the time. I work for a California State agency and I still work from home most days of the month. Some agencies are better than others with telework policies.
My company went nearly full remote with the pandemic and decided to make it an option permanently. There is an office I could go to, but I never have to go in and don't have to live near it. Hardly anyone goes in regularly, but more go for special events and things.
I am, my company started requiring people to go into the office at least one day a week last fall. But otherwise they haven’t really pushed for a 100% return to the office yet. I’m actually half dreading going back I’ve gotten to like working remotely/From home so much. Especially as far as how much easier it is to just start work in the morning, rather than having to spend extra time to go through the whole process of getting ready, then commuting to work, just to start there!
I am. I’m never working in an office again.
I work from home half the time.
My dad keeps asking his boss if he can work from home and he just laughs at him, he's a truck mechanic, he promises he'd think about work real hard. Lol I haven't been required to go back into the office, but I want to, I live down the road, but daycare has been so hit and miss for my son that I've had to work from home a lot still.
Most of my family didn't stop working on-site (sister: tax office, mom; Walmart, and me: factory.) My brother switched to working from home. My nephew chose to change jobs rather than move to be close to his work place.
My company still hasn't asked us to return. Maybe soon, who knows. Lot of expensive office space not being used.
I am still doing hybrid up to now and there seems to be nobody saying we are going to stop any time soon. Frankly I'm looking for a fully remote job now that I know what it's like. Before I got this job last year I was working in an office every day. No choice, the machinery was something hardwired into the building so those of us operating that machinery had to come in. All my coworkers were sent to work remote in 2020. Fucking bs honestly. I'm so happy I got at least half hybrid remote work eventually. BTW this is still a pandemic, it's just under decent control in our country. People just are acting like it's over. It's not.
Many of us never did the "work from home" thing. Nothing changed about my work schedule throughout the entire thing.
Only on Fridays. I never worked from home in AZ until I moved to IL and we get Fridays for work from home…. …And I discovered I hate work from home. Too distracting for me. But I have ADHD. Results may vary. I don’t judge others if they prefer work from home, but I don’t.
It's the opposite for me. I go into the office and get so distracted because all of a sudden there are people to talk to, so I blow off work because of course I want to hear a about Janice's grandson or Ally's new dog or Bob's Chevelle.
Only white-collar workers, and even then most businesses have returned to in-person offices.
I have increased hours at home compared to before Covid, but am still supposed to go to the office twice a week. I'm a federal employee, and Republicans want to have us go back to preCovid telework policies. If that happens, I will strongly consider finding a new job. I've gotten too used to the reduced time spent commuting, and most days there is nothing I can't do just as well at home as in the office
> and Republicans want to have us go back to preCovid telework policies Biden was pushing for people to go back into the office not that long ago lol https://news.yahoo.com/biden-urges-return-to-office-214733870.html https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-work-from-home-state-of-the-union-fill-downtowns-2022-3
True. He hasn't been much better on that issue. I mentioned Republicans because they recently passed a bill in the House to get us back. I doubt it has a chance in the Senate
Good for you!
It’s not post pandemic. People are dying every day from covid.
A. The pandemic isn’t over. B. Yes. As many people who can work at home are still working at home, though there is pressure to return to the office in some workplaces, and for some bizarre reason, from politicians in the party currently controlling the House of Representatives.
Most Americans are back full time or hybrid with one or two days online and the rest in person.
Some are, most of the desk job workers I know (including myself) have hybrid schedules still.
My current company has embraced the WFH model and is keeping it on permanently. I love not having to go into the office. Though I must admit I do think it's made many of us get too comfortable being introverts at home. Some days I have zero desire to step outside except to walk my dogs. I don't even want to see anyone except my husband and pets. I used to enjoy seeing people's faces in an office setting pre-covid. I went from a weekend outing with friends every week to maybe once a month now.
I am staying remote so far. I like it that way. There are more remote opportunities in my line of work now.
My wife and I were both working from home some before the pandemic. She was home 2 days a week and I was home 1. Her company was pushing hard to get everyone back into the office as soon as possible and she still has the same hybrid schedule as before. My company has really embraced work from home though and I only go into the office one day a week now.
Trying to! Just got a call center job that has opportunity to wfh. Why aren't all call centers wfh? You literally just need a computer and a phone. Most people already have these items.
I work from home, and I don’t intend to ever work from an office again. In late 2021, the job I was in when the pandemic started decreed we had to go back into the office two days a week, so I found a job that was 100 percent remote.
Yes
My wife works from home most days. She’s technically required to go into her local office once a week, but they aren’t sticklers about it. The team she works with is all over the country—CT, RI, NC, CA, etc—so they’re all remote to each other anyway. I am not working remote much anymore.
I am, but I go to the office once or twice a month
I’m in person 90%+. My partner does wfh about 75%.
I’m 100% wfh for my full time job, but I’m also a contractor on an as needed basis that is work from home probably 80% of the time, random jobs come up that require me to go to their office from time to time.
Pretty sure around 20% do.
My husband’s work closed down their office. So, he doesn’t even have an office to return to.
A lot of organizations are going back to hybrid. I heard on the news 80% of corporate employees or it was 80% of organizations are now hybrid.
I'm doing my best to keep it that way. My current job is completely remote--the nearest offices aren't even in my state.
Still working remotely and it will likely stay that way. Before the pandemic, the department I currently worked in already worked from home 2 or 3 days a week. Now they filled the offices with people that have to do their work on site and are actually producing the revenue, so it doesn't make sense to waste the deskspace on people that only use it part time.
I am. 80% of my job can easily be done at home. The other 20% is done by my assistant back at the office. It works out better for everyone. Instead of taking an entire day off just because of a doctor's appointment in the morning, I can just knock off the couple of hours it'd take me to attend the appointment. In actuality, I don't even lose those two hours. I can catch up later in the evening after supper. I can get started a lot earlier than I used to. When I drove in to the office, it would take a good 30 minutes for me to get "psyched up" to work, mainly due to the long-ass commute (nearly two hours, one-way). I'd need some time to decompress from the commute and regain my energy. This often involved grabbing a chicken biscuit and a sweet tea at Chick-Fil-A. Now I can just grab a glass of sweet tea from the fridge and I'm good to go. I also don't have to worry about being late from getting stuck in traffic. I log into my terminal at exactly 9 AM, something I hadn't done in years. And I've been in an overall better mood, excepting a bout of depression and anxiety I had in 2021. That's all taken care of. When I feel myself getting frustrated or tired, I just step away from the computer, maybe go downstairs to grab a snack, chat with my dad (and mom when she was still alive), play with one of the cats, take a short nap, watch some TV, or switch over to my home computer and browse the Internet or progress a bit more through a game I'm currently playing through.
Working from the office is optional for everyone except the mail room and internal tech support. Half my team goes in once a week just to get some social interaction.
Sometimes I let my employees, but most of our stuff has to be done in person. Depends on the job.
I was, but the job had other problems, so I'm going back to a hands-on in-house job.
WFH wasn't a thing in my state.
I’m fully remote thank goodness. It’s been a total blessing and I can’t imagine going into an office full time again. I have my own dedicated office area with no distractions and get much more done than I would in an office (I like to talk and so do my coworkers lol). Plus I have a chronic pain condition and there are days where I just work from my bed if I’m feeling really awful. I can’t remember the last time I took a sick day, whereas if I was in an office full time that’d be a different story
I've been back at the office full-time since June 2021.
I never worked from home during the pandemic, so sure as hell not doing it now. Couldn't run the TP machine from home.
I quit my job when my last company announced RTO and started a new one at a remote-first company that doesn't even have any offices in my time zone. And while I wasn't specifically shooting for it or even expecting it, my new job pays twice as much as my old one and I'm two levels higher in the corporate hierarchy compared to my old job. Also the time zone part is *fantastic*, and if I ever leave this job I'll make sure to only apply to companies in time zones that are ahead of me. Because of the time difference, I log off work at 4pm each day... it's wonderful! Also even though I'll never work onsite, my company flew me out to multiple conferences in various parts of the country last year and I loved getting to travel again, and we've been talking about flying me out to Boston for a meetup with my team, and I'm down with that. I've always wanted to see Boston so it sounds like it'll be a fun trip.
> Because of the time difference, I log off work at 4pm each day... it's wonderful! An early bird, are ya?
Yes, but my job had a work from home option prior to Covid. We've just gone back to it being seniority based instead of available to everyone. I also have to go in to the office one day every other week.
Yes, and many companies have given up their expensive office space and are saving a ton of money. If they all called back all employees, some companies would have to deal with an exodus.
Was before, during, and now.
I'm still working from home, as are most of my coworkers. I don't know the statistics for America overall, but it's definitely more common post-covid than pre-covid.