I’ve never had a WFH job and I generally don’t think I’d personally want/be successful with one. My sister is fully remote and she actually hates it, but I think its more the job she doesn’t like than the WFH aspect. She says its lonely and isolating on top of disliking her daily tasks. I’m not anti WFH for others at all, to absolutely clear.
Yes. Im way more efficient at home. Less offfice bullshit.
No commute or shitty weather.
Roll out of bed and online in seconds, just open the laptop lid, leave it in suspend.
My food and can cook a proper meal.
Also can throw on a wash or whatever during the day.
Being home when my packages get delivered is also a nice bonus too! And where I live, I have to deal with a lot of snow. Normally this would be a pain in the ass, but when you work from home, you get to it when you feel like it.
Through the comments so far the lack of commute would be the biggest plus for me personally. I work in a power plant about 35 mins from my house. So, no matter the weather I absolutely need to be in, sometimes that has meant sleeping there.
People who socialize in the office hate wfh
People who socialize outside of the office love wfh
People who don’t socialise at all also love wfh
Thats pretty fair.
I socialize quite a lot at both but work is a non-issue for me as long as I perform on my half assed level of half assed halfassery.
Yeah it more applies to people who actually get their primary socialization time at work
A lot of people have social lives that are dominated by work relationships from being regular friends to hanging out after work and such
So wfh for them is basically just isolation because they never had to socialize for themselves, school and then work provided it by necessity and proximity
I love it and I’m never going back.
- I save myself the commute (time, gas).
- In closer to my son’s daycare, so it’s easier to pick him up of something spontaneously comes up.
- I’m near my dog throughout the day.
- I have the fridge close to me. ;-)
- I can do the laundry or start the vacuum robot at convenient times.
- I have less interruptions by blergh people.
- I don’t have to sit with my back towards the office door, which in turn was adjacent to the men’s room.
- I can wear casual legwear.
- Better coffee.
- My three person office at work is empty anyway, because my colleagues commuted from further apart and are happy about WFH as well. So my options are a) sit alone in my office at home or b) sit alone in my office at work.
- I’m here for deliveries throughout the day.
- I don’t have that loneliness/isolation issue going, but I do see that it’s wildly different among people; some are made for WFH and some need the office to be happy.
EDIT to add, because it’s an important factor and I read it in the answers:
- shitting on your own toilet, with proper toilet tissue, even through remote meetings.
I never thought of the toilet thing but thats so fucking true!
I would add the ability to use a bidet. Travel bidets exist, but the ideal just feels gross and embarrassing.
Working from home: Bidet yaaaay
Office: I bring my own toilet tissue because every bathroom is a nightmare
Your own toilet and good toilet paper instead of the cheapest waxy one-ply 🙏 your own control over the AC/heat instead of freezing/sweating 🙏 never having to smell someone heating up fish in the microwave 🙏
I’m 100% remote and love it
There’s no bidet at work
For anyone who has to go in to work and suffer without a bidet, I find this worked well:
Phenomenal points.
I’ve been WFH since 2020, and it’s working well for me.
There are some obvious benefits such as not having a commute, being able to do laundry during breaks and always being there when a package arrives.
Some maybe less obvious advantages I personally enjoy is being able to eat whenever, meaning a quick snack but also my lunch, and wearing less appealing but way more comfortable clothes.
Oh, and shitting in my own toilet. While getting paid for it. Definitely that.
I’m not gonna dismiss the potential challenges, though. It works well for me because I don’t mind being alone and I’m lucky to have a spare room to use as an office. Without those two factors it could easily enter suck territory.
Not having to wear my work uniform would be sweet as hell.
I’d say not having to commute is a huge benefit of WFH, but it has some pitfalls that can negatively impact your work performance depending on what you do.
I get paid to be on a computer while sitting at home. regardless of the output or pay, the environment is exquisite.
I did Corp office work for … years… then worked toward wfh goals toward end of 20-teens. been remote since 2019.but there’s a certain expectation and performance that comes with it. years of Corp work taught me to be punctual and professional, etc. politeness / teamwork /soft skills still come into play, even remotely.
Soft skills are such a hack at any job.
Unquestionably yes. My coffee doesn’t taste like shit, and my PJs are far more comfortable than any office attire imaginable.
Yes, been 100% WFH since 2015. I do miss the random chats in hallways, lunch room, etc, but definitely not worth going back to an office. I am far more effective at home.
One reason that’s in favour is that people who cannot WFH benefit because there’s fewer people clogging up the commute. I always bring this up with people who say “must be nice but I can’t build a house/save patients/etc. from home”. Some people like that feel that because they need to be somewhere, office dwellers should too. But it actively makes their life more difficult!
Sometimes. There’s a lot less office BS at home, but it gets very quiet and isolated, even if you intentionally make a trip out during lunch or whatever.
The commute sucks though. Always.
Commute fucking blows
I dream of being able to WFH. But I am just a high school graduate. The only kind of job I really could get that would allow for remote work is certain aspects of IT, reception/call service, or sales. And I don’t wanna do sales. It’s not that I can’t do other jobs, I just very likely won’t even get an interview when I have no degree in anything.
No, not really.
I have quite different desk setups and it just feels strange working on my home setup. It’s fine for the odd weekend fix under an hour, but for proper work I’d rather go to the office. Also less distractions (cats) in the office.
Even during covid I was pretty much at the office every day. Someone had to be there to receive mail and such, so I volunteered.
I list cats among the benefits of WFH
Overall, absolutely. But sometimes you just need to concentrate for a few ours and be “in the zone” and that is very hard to do with a cat around.
No. I have ADHD and need external pressure to be productive.
Working from home in my job doesn’t signal that pressure.
Most of the tasks that are assigned to me can always wait for another day.
So at home, I mostly just browse Feddit.
At work, I have people around me who can see my screen, and I can hear the issues my colleagues are having.
And since a day of fucking around makes me feel more exhausted at the end than a day working productively, I prefer going to the office.
The bicycle commute that wakes me up in the morning, releases stress in the evening, and keeps me fit, is a bonus.This sounds like my experience before I burned out. And while I was in the process of burning out, I still would have preferred to work from the office because home was, and is, my safe space. I don’t want work intruding there.
This does not mean that I haven’t worked from home - I was the on-call tech more than once, nor does it mean that I think WFH is a bad idea. In fact I’m all for it for those who can handle it.
I like the idea of unnecessary layers of manglement sweating because they can’t justify their existence through pointless micromanagement.
Yes, I regain 3 hours of my day that would normally be wasted that I don’t get paid for.
