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Agreed.
The office is a building that is built around the idea of helping you getting your job done.
It's a home office, but optimized for its task.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I've been working from home for almost 10 years. I no longer have an "office" at the Office. The development and testing infrastructures in my home office are much more seamless and better equipped than the virtual environments I would have to use at the office. If I had to go into the office even once or twice a month, my productivity would definitely decline. Furthermore, the office is 75 miles away (I live well out in the country), and losing three hours a day minimum to a commute is a killer.
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Without posting anything too personal - where in the US are you?
I live 15 minutes from "the office" - but that place is a mushroom zone. The s/w group is in a back section of the building with no daylight what so ever. If a tornado came through, we might know about it. I have all of the equipment in my home office as I do in my "cube" and December means fiber in the house. In the north Georgia USA area, there has been an explosion of high end building "in the country" because people know it makes no sense to commute.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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North Texas, Northeast of the Dallas area.
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Should rather've been:
| How much has your attitude towards work-from-home changed since the [...] pandemic ?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Working with special hardware writing control systems. Ofttimes emulation is
OK but sometimes you just need to bump against hardware.
"Funny" thing is having worked from home off and on since 2011 I have a better
setup, better computer and monitors, better desk and chair than in the office.
Going into the office is like slumming around for the day.
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I'm willing to start in an office for the first couple of months and then to touch base a few times a year if I must, so long as the vast majority of my work is done at home. A few times a month? Not a chance.
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I agree with this.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I've been mostly working from home for 20 years, as I'm the primary carer for my wife. As her condition has progressed I've needed to spend more and more time helping her. So now if I couldn't work from home I would have to give up work completely.
Luckily my company have been fine with this, and in fact they have now closed my office completely as, post COVID, everyone is working from home.
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I usually work from home, but when I must deploy and test my work, I MUST travel to my customer location as I am an industrial programmer that program industrial machines and robots and, trust me, those does not fit in my dining room.
In any case I've found some customers that ask me to make the offline part at their offices. Usually, they change their mind when they start seeing bills regarding the commute.
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I worked for seven years on small industrial machines and they were definitely bigger than any room of any house (including a freaking mansion) I lived in. And the power they need to operate is not something readily available in residential areas anyway.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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home office in some remote cabin in Oregon.
company sends program manager once a month who pays cash in advance for my work, and apologizes for disturbing me
said manager kept waiting outside the cabin while i count the money.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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For me at least, I much prefer to be in the office, I am in work mode while in the office. When I was quarantining with COVID, I was trying to work on some things from home, I thought I was going to go crazy.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
modified 21-Nov-22 15:27pm.
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For the first month of lockdown I set up a desk and such in my garage. And it worked OK until the temperature became too high.
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I wish that I could, aside from the physical distractions, I found that I could not concentrate to write even simple code, and I'm clueless as to why.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I am the only developer and live in a different state. No office to go to - boss works from his basement.
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His mother is OK with that?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: His mother is OK with that?
Maybe she is the boss?
Universal Compiler Error 49: unrecognized developer. (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore, or assume (F)etal position
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Since 2017, I have crippling anxiety and have panic attacks around people, especially in a workplace where I'm being evaluated. I can't even interview anymore, but fortunately work finds its way to me.
In a way, I'm grateful for COVID because it changed the way companies saw remote work, and made it more palatable in general for the bean counters and bosses.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I do a few days a week in the office, could be a few days a month. My job role allows that, my contract does not. I need to show face. Don't really mind but its better to work from home.
That said if my job included repairing printers and handing out laptops I'd need to be in the office a lot more.
So it depends, would my huge luxury of home-working demoralize the infrastructure level 1 support guy more than me being forced into a daily commute demoralizes me?
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There is one documented downside from everyone working from home - local restaurants, eateries, coffee shops, etc. lose patrons - lose money - go out business.
We are seeing this first hand here in Schenectady, NY and I have heard the same for some of the other major cities and towns in Upstate NY.
There is a big political and financial push now to get people back into the offices for these reasons.
I personally have been working from home for over 10 years now. I try to frequent the eateries in my local town at least 3 times a week, to help them financially (at least in my mind I am helping them), but I also love the food they offer, and I am a terrible cook.
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But working from home benefits the planet. The amount of energy, fuel, and time that is expended annually just moving people into and out of a city each day must be phenomenal.
Working from home ... the energy to stroll across the living room, the time to sit down.
And it is always thus: change happens, and everything adjusts to it. Once it settles, it's generally an order of magnitude better for everyone than it was before - it just takes a long time to get there. The car bankrupted the horse based industries, forced the railways to try and adapt, killed business in taverns and way stations across the world. But allowed mass transit, distribution of goods, the rise of a comfortable middle class, a whole wealth of benefits that couldn't even be guessed at before the ICE.
I have no idea what home working will bring, but ... it's got to be better long term than the alternative!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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one of the most absurd felling i've got was watching a bridge across a river that split the city in two parts. every day during the rush hour you would see angry people going from point A to point B across the bridge in cars/buses/trucks as if you would almost hear the military march that is orchestrating that madness. and then some 8 hours latter you would see every beaten up person going back from B to A...
but this "change happens, and everything adjusts to it. Once it settles, it's generally an order of magnitude better for everyone than it was before", i don't believe
first of all, i don't believe that everything should adjust in a Borgish assimilating collective way. and that, there is no possible way for something to be "better for everyone". the injustice here is done by the majority to the minority. although it is a lesser injustice than to impose the will of minority over the majority, there still is
the danger lies in the other end of the spectrum of WFH. some jobs (construction) are only possible when you exit your home and go to work. this (the lack of care of people who can WFH to people who cannot) will be used to stop people from exiting their homes for whatever convictions the enforcing side has
some may say, well i don't mind ever exiting my home and being connected to the metaverse, but i for instance don't want to explore the universe in an imaginary ship from a 15k apartment building block. i want to do it like the crew of The Enterprise, unmodified in flesh and blood
"I have no idea what home working will bring, but ... it's got to be better long term than the alternative!"
for you, but it may not be for me. therefor, let us hope that there always is an alternative
cheers
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You're conflating issues here: it's not "will" of the majority at all - it's a lot more like evolution where there is no directed result but a trend towards beneficial change. In fact, it can be seen as an "evolution of society" - remember that some evolutionary pathways are dead ends that largely die out!
As such there is no "assimilation" - Borgish or otherwise - just change.
Yes, there are jobs where physical presence in necessary - doctors, nurses, construction, and many others. That doesn't mean that there is any lack of care involved - it may even improve their lot by reducing the flow of people at peak times to a "civilized" level!
Even for companies, WFH is a financial bonus: no need for big expensive buildings that are empty 2/3 of time; that need expensive heating and cooling systems, and so forth.
Better for work/life balance, better for the planet, better for corporate balance sheets. What's not to like?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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