My 1 hour commute in train - I read my book In the office - free coffee, beer, sparkling water, soda, snacks etc. I move around in the office, different work stations. Super productive. Later in the day - ping pong, pool or more work. After work I sometimes walk around in the city, go to bars or meetups. Back home commute - I read my book or listen to a podcast. I come home, go to my night gym class. Staying at home had made me so depressed, lonely even tho I was hanging out every weekend with my friends. Despite me being a quiet and shy person, talking to new people in office or just seeing people everyday has made me a lot happier person. Even the tiniest things like seeing a tiny event - happy, sad, crazy - in a train has made me experience different moments. It gave me more things to talk about and be better socially as well. Just to point out I work in a startup and not in a big corporation. RTO in big corporations isn’t that fun in my experience.
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Cool story bro. Most people’s commute is not nice.
its really all about the commute. working in the office 2 minutes from your house around people 3-4 days a week is a no brainer problem is, my work is 2 hours away
By definition most people can’t live next to work. 83% of the population doesn’t live in a city
Do you have kids? How are you managing pickup drop off or any other classes?
Just like people from other professions.
Nah i am single in mid 20s
This is the great divide between young singles and people married with kids. Being out and about is fun when you're 24. Not that fun when you're 37 with a 3rd grader finishing school at 3pm and having soccer at 5
single 20-something’s should be going in to the office to establish themselves and corporations should also acknowledge the needs of parents and adjust policy to accommodate. Especially now that many couples have no “stay-at-home” parent
Yeah I am in my mid 20s. I can understand it might be hard with kids. I can’t imagine myself in that position rn.
RTO solution is to make it optional. There are many who think like you and enjoy being in the office once in a while. I don't see anyone enjoy commuting 2 hours a day for an extended period of time
Yeah corporations that make it mandatory come out as very authoritarian.
No, that just sucks for everyone. What's the point of going into the office if there's no one there? I had that before where I sat alone in an office where everyone else was working "remotely" some from literally blocks away. It's dumb. They should come in and be team players.
I hate being around people, it drains my energy. Remote was a blessing for me.
Same the more I go in the more tired and depressed I feel
Alot of ppl on blind are severe introverts
Sure Zuckerberg I see you are working the propaganda angle
Nah like I mentioned this experience won’t be similar in big corporations
Meta has the least RTO of all FAANG from what I see, weird comment
Multiple workstations? Covid superspreader I see
Well I did recently became single. So staying busy like this has also helped me move on
Ok. You could have also socialized and played ping pong from home, but you chose to stay in the house. I guess some people need to be forced into socializing
Well you need someone to play with. All my friends live far or are married now. It’s very hard to make plans. Also playing ping pong is only one of the aspect. When you are out you learn different things from different people, you observe simple, sometimes crazy, things happening in the city. These experiences help when interacting with others socially. You will find yourself having more things to talk about
So let’s force someone to come to the office to play with you? Disgusting.
It’s true. Everyone important in my life is busy during the workday and not going to spend time hanging out with me during the workday no matter how people on here want to spin it. Much better to spend time around people all day, even if they’re coworkers, than at home in total isolation.
Absolutely!!
I’m experiencing the same effects. Wfh has been life changing because it gave me opportunity to literally study hard, whatever I wanted to become an expert into but would have had to take time off for a masters or something otherwise. But in the last year, I kept going like that and has worn me down. Constant burnout for months with no way to escape the hole I dug myself into. I’m looking for on-site opportunities for Deep Learning Engineering in London, hit me up if you’re hiring.