I am for fully remote work. But there are a number of conditions here:

First of all, if you are a remote worker, you need to delineate zones. You shouldn’t work from bed or from a sofa in front of the TV. Set up a workspace for yourself. It could even be just an old table on a loggia. But it must physically exist.

Secondly, you cannot stretch time. If you work in a team, try to stick to a common schedule or discuss time zones in advance. There is nothing worse than a situation where you need to resolve an urgent issue, but the person who has the knowledge to solve it will only be online in 5 hours.

Thirdly, you need to have enough motivation to carry out the previous two points. This is important.

If all this works out, then remote work is magnificent. The commute to work is zero, and lunch can be whatever you want. It also solves the problem of open-plan offices. In recent years, they have turned the interior zones of those offices into warehouses filled with desks. It’s terrible.

Personally, I work from home, and in the evening I leave the apartment to go for a walk or sit in a park. This is enough to not feel lonely. Especially since the commute to work used to take me 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour back in the evening. In that time, you could sit through a movie session and still have time for go home from movie theater.

Personally, it entirely depends on:

• how far way I am from the office
• how many other people are in the open office

If I were 5 minutes walk from the office, I would walk there because it provides better separation from work. It would be much easier to tell the boss “sorry boss, I am not at the office and thus I cannot take a look”. Not that my current dayjob has much of this, but, structurally, it would make it much better.

On the other hand, at home I get the benefits of peace and quiet. I am going to be on calls with remote people anyway, so I would rather not deal with echos, or noise from other people having their meetings. I also realize that I am a bigger bother in person because I will do the in-person equivalent of shooting off a slack message. A slack message can be snoozed. I cannot be snoozed when I talk to the person next to me. And, sure, I try not to, but it is a thing I do.

I am currently 100% remote, though, and it is one of the reasons I am not even attempting to look for another job. I get so much flexibility because I can just take my laptop with me and work from wherever the internet hotspot allows.

Work at ‘office’ only. For sure!
But that’s because I work with radioactive materials and I don’t want them in my home.

And then there are the days when you haul ass out of bed and fight your way in to the office, only to find that the network’s having problems and you have to work on the WiFi anyway. Why am I here, again? 🙄

I’ve been wfh for i6 years, it would suck to go back now

There is no question that I prefer WFH, and I’m lucky enough to have an employer that doesn’t care about commercial real estate profits and would prefer to keep the money they would otherwise spend on renting office space.

Within our group we have application support people who do in-person support of our users and workstations. That team does hybrid WFH and has a rotating schedule so there is always one person at each site every day.

There are other teams that don’t actually have to be next to the user for support. Those teams are primarily WFH.

I was primarily on site through the pandemic and transitioned to WFH after things opened up.

Back when I was mostly on site, I would get concerned about things not getting done when I was WFH. Since I’ve switched to primarily WFH, I get concerned about things not getting done when I’m on site.

The only time I experienced any feeling of social isolation was at the height of the pandemic when I was on-site and alone in an office. I’m no less alone when I’m working from home now, but it doesn’t bother me.

I’m a millennial. The world has had complete overhauls every 10 years since I was born

I’m Team Work Where You Are Best.

Some people that means an office. Some people it means remote. The plan is the workers do the thing and get the money. A manager needing to see their ass in a chair to feel good about himself is a little creepy.

I got wfh briefly when our offices flooded, and whatever undiagnosed things I have going on in my brain would not let me focus on my work in any way, shape, or form.

I wasn’t running around doing home things or playing video games or anything. I was sat in front of my computer, mentally incapable of doing the job I was trained in and skilled at. My brain just refused to go into work mode. My anxiety spiked and I got so frustrated at my mental block that I was in tears at one point. As soon as the officer was open, I returned before anyone else.

I like the idea of wfh, and will definitely try it again one day, but it seems that I need the change of environment to get my brain into gear.

Home only.

Why travel to an arbitrary location to access equipment at a different arbitrary location.

Office. For me personally: I like the contact with colleagues, I am more efficient in the workplace.

I could but team work office over home better.

I’ve been fully remote since 2018 and wouldn’t have it any other way. I can get chores and cooking done during the day, don’t waste time or money commuting, and I’m more available for both work and my family.

People keep telling me I should “leave my house” and “interact with people” but that’s always fraught with peril and disappointment

I’m a carpenter, so I don’t work from home or in an office. However.

If your job could be done in a WFH context and you would rather be in an office, respectfully, I absolutely cannot understand where you’re coming from. Working from home sounds awesome.

As much as I’d love to work from home, I can’t. I’m too easily distracted and work would be at the bottom of my priority list at all times.

I’ll happily support all of you home workers, but I can’t trust myself to do what I’m supposed to do during “work time”.