Home only.
Why travel to an arbitrary location to access equipment at a different arbitrary location.
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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".
From a societal perspective I think we should be working in common spaces so we can be near people and learn to socialize. We’re losing second and third spaces. Fewer people having children also means less forced interaction and I fear we are heading towards a more isolated society.
Unfortunately, not everyone would lives close enough to comfortably go into an office, which leaves people burning 2-3hrs of their day just doing that. And all the commuting also impacts the Earth.
I do think the modern workplace isn't really a good place for this either unfortunately. In my field at least it's like everybody is a corporate mercenary. They're going to come in, make no friends, do their jobs and then quietly leave for a higher paying position as soon as they possibly can.
Which is fine, but it's a pretty poor place to get social nourishment.
Work from home. I've really worked very little in an office, I find it unnecessary for collaboration and much more distracting than working from home.
You should have the option always. If you can work without burning fossil fuels to get to a place of work, you should.
I'm 50/50. In my own job there are a lot of days where I am just sitting at my laptop doing drawings or inventory calculations or other menial bs. I try to work from home where I can, and it honestly is fine with me. If I do it more than 2 or 3 days in a row though I start to feel brain rot creeping in from too much sameness.
The rest of the time I am frequently handling supplier product samples, prototype test units, taking first article measurements, and doing other shop stuff for other people in the company. I can't really work from home in those situations but it keeps my mind active and moving.
WFH.
Working at the office would mean buying a car, getting insurance, paying for parking and adding another 1.5 hours to my day. It's not worth it.
Hybrid, leaning towards office. At home I just can't manage to manage myself.
You got the ADHD too? Inattentive type, represent!
I live in a tiny micro studio apartment by myself - I could definitely work from home there but I'd quickly turn into an un-socialized hermit doing that long term. For better or worse I find there's some value actually getting myself out of the house and interacting with people IRL even if it's just work stuff.
Team hybrid FTW.
I like my hybrid schedule, it has a nice balance of being able to actually interact with people at the office and the flexibility of wfh.
Definitely from home. I have conditions that make travel difficult, and I'm a programmer by trade so there's usually no good reason to be on site.
I have too much executive dysfunction to work from home. I need to be in the office, bored out of my mind, in an uncomfortable chair, to force myself to want to work.
Hybrid. Getting up that early and dealing with traffic/the subway is a $$ PITA. But there are some things I can only do in the office, so I'm WFH mon-tues until someone tells me I can’t.
Office only, work from home is only allowed under very rare circumstances. Engineering for industrial manufacturing and if I worked from home about 80% of the questions I'd have would be answered by physically being there and watching the equipment run.
I'm an office kind of person. I need a designated place to work. I also find that coworkers are less communicative when working remote.