Also cannot wait to wear my shoes in the office.
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Whereas I will be wearing shoes, but not in an office. Interesting times for shoes/offices, no doubt.
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We had a survey to fill out of how weāre coping WFH and one question was what we miss from the office and all I could think of was ācakes on birthdaysā.
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Surely anybody with any sense takes their birthday off?
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Shoe talk spreading like Covid. Should probably have quarantined that post not moved it.
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I could quite happily wfh permanently but I do agree that there are legitimate concerns about new starters feeling part of the team in the same way as everyone who knew each other before. I think Iāll probably end up doing a couple of days a week in the office.
I lasted about a week in a shared office space. The amount of time people spend talking utter shite and mooning over each others little dogsā¦
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All I hope is that there is no great drive from the gov to get people back into offices, just stay out of it as it was embarrassing enough last time.
Bringing your dog into the shared office space is a big thing in London, less so elsewhere. I swear these people only get dogs so they can take them to work to instigate conversations.
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I miss the office.
Currently in one day a week.
ā Mathrani also claimed that people are āhappier when they come to work,ā ā
As someone fortunate enough to have not had to go to work for almost five years now I can tell you that this man is talking absolute bollocks.
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Iād dream of a 3 at home, 2 days at the office situation. Although I realise Iād probably feel a lot differently about this if I had to drive to work or if I despised my colleagues.
But as someone mentioned - itās one thing working remotely at your existing job where you know exactly what to do and whatās expected of you, and any friendships you do have with colleagues can essentially be sustained. But itād be another thing completely starting a new position at a new company and not actually āmeetingā anyone or just being able to ask things in person.
Even though Iām a student again nowadays, Iām still working full-time to pay for tuition, and the company morale has definitely plummeted a lot since we switched to working remotely. Nobody really bothers to make any effort with group social chats and whatnot. The corollary of that is that I feel like people might be more productive, but it no longer actually resembles working as part of a team or being part of a bigger picture. And even though I donāt really give a shit about my current company, it still feels quite natural to want to belong to something. Perhaps itās just an innate human trait. I donāt knowā¦
One thing thatās great though is no longer having to deal with the bullshit of working to the hour even if youāve completed all your work. Itās such an archaic measure anyway, but regardless, most managers still have to adhere to it when youāre at the office. Instead, nowadays, just try to blitz through my work in the morning, and use the rest of the day to study. Thanks pandemic!
Also, one thing I really donāt miss is dealing with disgusting shared kitchens/bathrooms at the office. I donāt think I can stomach again having to use the loo after itās just been āfreshly bakedā by someone else.
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āOpen up, weāre here to test you for Covid.ā
āNah.ā
āOK bye.ā
This morning I drove/sat in standstill motorway traffic for an hour and 20 minutes to open up my laptop here in the office to do what I wouldāve done sat at home.
I just donāt get it.
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Iām really looking forward to being with everyone at my work again, theyāre all really great.
But Iāve been able to do all of my work from home for the last year and a bit perfectly fine, except for trying to organise terabytes of footage between myself and the rest of the film crew. I wonāt miss that.
Iām loving working from home and having a much better balance of home/work. I really need to make sure I keep that going as much as I can once I go back into the office next month.
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Wow. Are most of you on here heading back this soon?
Our company terminated its lease with the landlord, so we technically donāt even have an office anymore anyway.
There will be a rota type situation
I started a new job ten months ago and have spent 5 hours with the other humans who work there in that time. The rest has been entirely zoom. Itās virtually impossible to properly join in or integrate socially cos outside of formal meetings everyone gets on with work in their bedroom/home office. That said, my home leisurewear is much improved and I see my kids more. Probably a hybrid of the two is the answer.
Iāll be pushing for 2 days in and 3 days out.
I think the people who insist everyoneās comes in even against all logic are probably short on friends outside of work.
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This is my main thing. Iāve been able to see so many amazing moments with our boy that I would have otherwise missed. It will break my heart when I canāt take him to pre-school anymore, I love our morning walks before I start work 
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I feel the pandemic has demonstrated to company owners and management just how well people can work from home and possibly the budgets which could be saved.
It has also weeded out some of the folk who just canāt manage their time or workload without being in front of the team, but I kind of feel like that percentage is pretty small.
Giving people a quality of life whilst in employment is so important and the pandemic should have reminded everyone from top to bottom of that.
There is an amazing opportunity right now to move forward for the betterā¦
If management for office based jobs move entire companies back to full office hours that kind of reeks of clueless management, I think.
I guess this is all kinda obvious, maybe? But doesnāt mean it isnāt hugely important in my eyes.
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