You go to an office to sign into a network to work on a file stored on one drive to send it over via email and have a meeting over teams with people in the same building as you, repeat every day.
You do fuck all work in an office that you can’t do at home.
EDIT: Forgot to add that you do all this from a laptop that you have to secure sign in on using an RSA token regardless of you being connected to the office network or not.
Not paying for travel expenses, don’t have to wash or wear a work clothes/uniform & the only annoying, lazy coworkers are your family. Sounds good
Edit: I added work clothes because Dr. Dickionary is in the thread & they’re not happy
Thankful every single fucking day that my job allowed us to stay 100% remote. It’s genuinely been a life changer.
I’ve agreed with my managers to do four days from home and one day in the office and I like that mix.
I get far more done at home, and the no commute is life-changing, but it is nice to see people in-person and have the chats too.
However, if they told me I had to pick one or the other I would 100% be staying at home. I’m saving on diesel, saving my time, getting more time with my pets and I’m able to do household things on my lunch break. It’s no contest.
Working from home is fantastic. I can get up 20 minutes before work starts, have a shower, make my coffee, then sit down to my computer.
I don’t have to sit in a car for 2 hours a day, I don’t have to unnecessarily wear formal clothing, I don’t have to engage in mindless chat with coworkers I don’t even like. It’s amazing. I even find I get a lot more work done since there are fewer distractions.
It’s also worked wonders for my health, since I now have the time and energy to prepare healthy meals for myself.
Going into the office is what I do now when I don’t need to get much work done.
Used to lose 3 hours a day to and from work looking at the back of someone else’s car.
Now I get out of bed a minute before work and I’m home the minute I clock out.
I’ve literally never been happier in my working life.
If your work obligations can be carried out from home and you can still communicate with whoever you need to communicate with, there is no reason why people shouldn’t be able to. It looks like it will become the norm for most work that can be carried out from a computer. Pros and cons but if the employee is happier working from home, then why not?
I’ve gone from 3 days a week in the office prepandemic to like… 3 days a month in the office (with like 2 years of wfh exclusively).
Herself gave birth twice during the pandemic and I’ve had the privilege of being there to help out more than any dad I’ve known in my life. I’ve gotten to spend more time watching my children turn from babies to toddlers than any full time father could have ever expected in history. It’s been amazing.
I’m lucky to have the option that I might never work more than two days a week in an office every again – or at least, I wouldn’t move to a job that didn’t allow majority wfh.
Businesses need to implement WfH. They need to stop all this “We don’t trust our staff to work from home” (I’m paraphrasing here). Let people work how it suits them, no need to badger them
About two months ago, I resigned from my work cause I had to commute 50km 3 times a week, to work from the office, while most of my team wasn’t even in the country.
While I was doing interviews for “remote only” roles, I met a CEO of a medium size company and when I told him that I am leaving because of the “back to office” thing, he was surprised.
He then told me that their HR dept did a survey and found out that around 80% (which matches Trinity’s study) want to work from home, and about 50% of them would accept a hybrid solution.
He then continued by saying that if he posts a job that requires office presence, or even hybrid, the company will decrease their target group to 50% of candidates, and with a lot of chances that a hired employee won’t be fully satisfied on day one, as they probably preferred a remote role.
He also suggested that someone who is really good at his job, and has the option for a remote only job, they won’t accept an office/hybrid role, therefore their available target group is not only smaller, but of less capable candidates.
No shit? If the work gets done it shouldn’t matter from where.
Not to mention that commute time isn’t compensated for, so why would I spend my valuable time, energy, and money to satisfy some middle manager’s ego?
The only people this sucks for- or rather, the people this sucks for that I sympathise with – are those for whom WFH is legitimately not an option. I wish there was some way to legislate commute time as counting towards working hours, because otherwise you’re effectively taking a pay cut if you choose to work in a site-based job (like say, a lab or a warehouse).
Yes. We are starting to tell people they have to come back and it’s pissing them off. People are moving further out of Dublin to afford a house and I don’t blame them for not wanting to do a 2 hour commute.
This is about power. We had our most productive and profitable year during the pandemic.
Makes no sense to push people back to the office
I quit Telus at the end of July rather than going back to the office.
The stupidity of limiting yourself as a business to one single town, in the middle of a housing crisis no less, fuck that noise.
I am most productive in the morning. WFH allows me to start at 7am and be really productive at least until lunch when I begin to slow down.
If I had to go into the office, I would be far less productive. So much time would be wasted.
It is great.
Absolute godsend, has put to rest the fantasy notion that being in an office for 8-9 hours a day means 8-9 hours of productivity.
Left my own role which was going hybrid for. Fully remote job and can confirm I’m infinitely happier.
WTF is wrong with the other 22%
It would make sense then to stop building offices, or at least significantly reduce their construction, in favour of more important things… Like houses
I hope anyone who can work from is allowed to. As a person who can’t, it would make my commute so much easier because of less traffic. Here’s hoping more of you get to do it.
Anecdotally I’ve noticed that people who live writhin about 30 minutes of the office will go into the office. I can understand people commuting longer distances would not want to return to the office.
Maybe they can stop building what seems to be only office buildings around the city and build some apartments instead.
My gf is back 5 days in the office and I can see her mood totally change! She is actively looking for remote work! She has 3 hours a day commute ( there and back) it’s a nightmare. I’m in 1 or 2 days a week but I don’t mind as it’s a nice social space but would never go back 5 days
I’m back in the office 4 days a week now and get far less done. Plus my dog’s home alone all day.
Plus the wasted money on fuel, and the emissions from it.
Fuckin waste of time completely, and I actually like my colleagues, but still, a waste.
Like, Ireland just needs to fucking do it and go all in on remote.
We’re in GMT, but we’re not the UK.
We have ALL of the big tech companies.
We have a housing crisis in our cities and fuckloads of beautiful places where people could live in the countryside.
Why the fuck not?
Most jobs can be done 100 % remotely. And especially now with the housing crisis, it should be a no-brainer to let people do these jobs remotely from wherever they live, without expecting them to get up a 4 am just to be on time at work at 9.
What are the government doing to support this? Probably nothing
Never been happier and healthier in my life. The time spent commuting has been replaced with time to work out and cook healthy food. Gone are the days of a quick frozen pizza after being too wrecked to go shopping and cooking some quality food. I’ve not only gained life quality, I’ve probably also added years to my life expectancy due to much healthier lifestyle and significantly lower stress.
22% of people are Managers
I’ve found the odd days I go into the office, I’m WAY less productive. We’ve been short staffed since 2020, and the only reason we’re not overwhelmed is because all of my team works better at home. WFH is a win for everyone.
Make commuting part of working hours, plus make the vehicle or tickets work expenses or standard company issues. Then see what happens.
Working from home is amazing, I’d never go into the office if given a choice, but honestly hybrid working is the worst of all. You get none of the “advantages” of working in the office as a good chunk of the staff arent there, but you also lose the ability to work from anywhere. Like, offering hybrid WFH for a job in Dublin means nothing to me as I live in Cork.
Currently going in one day a week but hoping to push that to one day a month if I can.
I spend approx 300 a month currently on diesel + waste 2 hrs of my day commuting. Yeah I think I’m one of the 78% but unfortunately my office doesn’t allow work from home. I like the people here but I don’t see me sticking around if they don’t change this policy.
No shit! Don’t leave the big companies tell you otherwise
The other 22% are the fucking melters that the rest of us want to stay out of the office to avoid.
115km round trip to the office. to sit there for 9 hrs and fake conversations with people I dont like, getting home late and repeat.
Never want to be in an office again.
WFH is the single greatest thing that’s ever happened to me. I’ll be on the dole before I give it up.
We were pushed to come back in 1-2 days a week minimum. I made my feelings clear that having discovered the many benefits of WFH I don’t wish to go back. But they more or less told me to suck it up
So I applied for a different job that’s 100% WFH. Once I notified my manager he took a 180° U-turn. He’s pleading with me not to leave, I can stay at home for good, forget they ever tried to bring me back in
I haven’t even been offered the new job yet! Either way I’ve secured 100% WFH for myself going forward
i havent been in the office in over 2 and a half years, i literally work with no people in the Irish office so was only going in once every 2 weeks pre-pandemic anyway…
It is really great and the amount of time saved commuting is unreal, the only downside is that is can become quite isolating after a while, ive struggled with that quite a bit.
Lines up with my employer. We were given the option of remote, hybrid or office arrangements and 79% picked remote, 20% picked hybrid and 1% picked office.
WFH has been a game changer for me. I can go to the gym before work now, and my evenings are my own from 5pm.
Workers need to simply put their foot down. Employers are apparently begging for staff, simply refuse to take a job that can be done from home that requires you in the office. These companies have been fucking us for years. Profits through the roof, CEO’s making billions while your average worker in on a pittance of a wage.
Let them go out of business if they won’t allow work from home.
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Isn’t that… not surprising at all?
You go to an office to sign into a network to work on a file stored on one drive to send it over via email and have a meeting over teams with people in the same building as you, repeat every day.
You do fuck all work in an office that you can’t do at home.
EDIT: Forgot to add that you do all this from a laptop that you have to secure sign in on using an RSA token regardless of you being connected to the office network or not.
Not paying for travel expenses, don’t have to wash or wear a work clothes/uniform & the only annoying, lazy coworkers are your family. Sounds good
Edit: I added work clothes because Dr. Dickionary is in the thread & they’re not happy
Thankful every single fucking day that my job allowed us to stay 100% remote. It’s genuinely been a life changer.
I’ve agreed with my managers to do four days from home and one day in the office and I like that mix.
I get far more done at home, and the no commute is life-changing, but it is nice to see people in-person and have the chats too.
However, if they told me I had to pick one or the other I would 100% be staying at home. I’m saving on diesel, saving my time, getting more time with my pets and I’m able to do household things on my lunch break. It’s no contest.
Working from home is fantastic. I can get up 20 minutes before work starts, have a shower, make my coffee, then sit down to my computer.
I don’t have to sit in a car for 2 hours a day, I don’t have to unnecessarily wear formal clothing, I don’t have to engage in mindless chat with coworkers I don’t even like. It’s amazing. I even find I get a lot more work done since there are fewer distractions.
It’s also worked wonders for my health, since I now have the time and energy to prepare healthy meals for myself.
Going into the office is what I do now when I don’t need to get much work done.
Used to lose 3 hours a day to and from work looking at the back of someone else’s car.
Now I get out of bed a minute before work and I’m home the minute I clock out.
I’ve literally never been happier in my working life.
If your work obligations can be carried out from home and you can still communicate with whoever you need to communicate with, there is no reason why people shouldn’t be able to. It looks like it will become the norm for most work that can be carried out from a computer. Pros and cons but if the employee is happier working from home, then why not?
I’ve gone from 3 days a week in the office prepandemic to like… 3 days a month in the office (with like 2 years of wfh exclusively).
Herself gave birth twice during the pandemic and I’ve had the privilege of being there to help out more than any dad I’ve known in my life. I’ve gotten to spend more time watching my children turn from babies to toddlers than any full time father could have ever expected in history. It’s been amazing.
I’m lucky to have the option that I might never work more than two days a week in an office every again – or at least, I wouldn’t move to a job that didn’t allow majority wfh.
never expected this, did you?
[https://nomadix.com/the-great-reset-working-from-home-and-the-rise-in-managed-wi-fi/](https://nomadix.com/the-great-reset-working-from-home-and-the-rise-in-managed-wi-fi/)
[https://www.businessandindustry.co.uk/future-of-work/the-great-reset-and-the-changing-world-of-work/](https://www.businessandindustry.co.uk/future-of-work/the-great-reset-and-the-changing-world-of-work/)
[https://time.com/collection/great-reset/](https://time.com/collection/great-reset/)
[https://time.com/collection/great-reset/5900739/fix-economy-by-2023/](https://time.com/collection/great-reset/5900739/fix-economy-by-2023/)
[https://time.com/collection/great-reset/5900748/klaus-schwab-capitalism/](https://time.com/collection/great-reset/5900748/klaus-schwab-capitalism/)
Businesses need to implement WfH. They need to stop all this “We don’t trust our staff to work from home” (I’m paraphrasing here). Let people work how it suits them, no need to badger them
About two months ago, I resigned from my work cause I had to commute 50km 3 times a week, to work from the office, while most of my team wasn’t even in the country.
While I was doing interviews for “remote only” roles, I met a CEO of a medium size company and when I told him that I am leaving because of the “back to office” thing, he was surprised.
He then told me that their HR dept did a survey and found out that around 80% (which matches Trinity’s study) want to work from home, and about 50% of them would accept a hybrid solution.
He then continued by saying that if he posts a job that requires office presence, or even hybrid, the company will decrease their target group to 50% of candidates, and with a lot of chances that a hired employee won’t be fully satisfied on day one, as they probably preferred a remote role.
He also suggested that someone who is really good at his job, and has the option for a remote only job, they won’t accept an office/hybrid role, therefore their available target group is not only smaller, but of less capable candidates.
No shit? If the work gets done it shouldn’t matter from where.
Not to mention that commute time isn’t compensated for, so why would I spend my valuable time, energy, and money to satisfy some middle manager’s ego?
The only people this sucks for- or rather, the people this sucks for that I sympathise with – are those for whom WFH is legitimately not an option. I wish there was some way to legislate commute time as counting towards working hours, because otherwise you’re effectively taking a pay cut if you choose to work in a site-based job (like say, a lab or a warehouse).
Yes. We are starting to tell people they have to come back and it’s pissing them off. People are moving further out of Dublin to afford a house and I don’t blame them for not wanting to do a 2 hour commute.
This is about power. We had our most productive and profitable year during the pandemic.
Makes no sense to push people back to the office
I quit Telus at the end of July rather than going back to the office.
The stupidity of limiting yourself as a business to one single town, in the middle of a housing crisis no less, fuck that noise.
I am most productive in the morning. WFH allows me to start at 7am and be really productive at least until lunch when I begin to slow down.
If I had to go into the office, I would be far less productive. So much time would be wasted.
It is great.
Absolute godsend, has put to rest the fantasy notion that being in an office for 8-9 hours a day means 8-9 hours of productivity.
Left my own role which was going hybrid for. Fully remote job and can confirm I’m infinitely happier.
WTF is wrong with the other 22%
It would make sense then to stop building offices, or at least significantly reduce their construction, in favour of more important things… Like houses
I hope anyone who can work from is allowed to. As a person who can’t, it would make my commute so much easier because of less traffic. Here’s hoping more of you get to do it.
Anecdotally I’ve noticed that people who live writhin about 30 minutes of the office will go into the office. I can understand people commuting longer distances would not want to return to the office.
Maybe they can stop building what seems to be only office buildings around the city and build some apartments instead.
My gf is back 5 days in the office and I can see her mood totally change! She is actively looking for remote work! She has 3 hours a day commute ( there and back) it’s a nightmare. I’m in 1 or 2 days a week but I don’t mind as it’s a nice social space but would never go back 5 days
I’m back in the office 4 days a week now and get far less done. Plus my dog’s home alone all day.
Plus the wasted money on fuel, and the emissions from it.
Fuckin waste of time completely, and I actually like my colleagues, but still, a waste.
Like, Ireland just needs to fucking do it and go all in on remote.
We’re in GMT, but we’re not the UK.
We have ALL of the big tech companies.
We have a housing crisis in our cities and fuckloads of beautiful places where people could live in the countryside.
Why the fuck not?
Most jobs can be done 100 % remotely. And especially now with the housing crisis, it should be a no-brainer to let people do these jobs remotely from wherever they live, without expecting them to get up a 4 am just to be on time at work at 9.
What are the government doing to support this? Probably nothing
Never been happier and healthier in my life. The time spent commuting has been replaced with time to work out and cook healthy food. Gone are the days of a quick frozen pizza after being too wrecked to go shopping and cooking some quality food. I’ve not only gained life quality, I’ve probably also added years to my life expectancy due to much healthier lifestyle and significantly lower stress.
22% of people are Managers
I’ve found the odd days I go into the office, I’m WAY less productive. We’ve been short staffed since 2020, and the only reason we’re not overwhelmed is because all of my team works better at home. WFH is a win for everyone.
Make commuting part of working hours, plus make the vehicle or tickets work expenses or standard company issues. Then see what happens.
Working from home is amazing, I’d never go into the office if given a choice, but honestly hybrid working is the worst of all. You get none of the “advantages” of working in the office as a good chunk of the staff arent there, but you also lose the ability to work from anywhere. Like, offering hybrid WFH for a job in Dublin means nothing to me as I live in Cork.
Currently going in one day a week but hoping to push that to one day a month if I can.
I spend approx 300 a month currently on diesel + waste 2 hrs of my day commuting. Yeah I think I’m one of the 78% but unfortunately my office doesn’t allow work from home. I like the people here but I don’t see me sticking around if they don’t change this policy.
No shit! Don’t leave the big companies tell you otherwise
The other 22% are the fucking melters that the rest of us want to stay out of the office to avoid.
115km round trip to the office. to sit there for 9 hrs and fake conversations with people I dont like, getting home late and repeat.
Never want to be in an office again.
WFH is the single greatest thing that’s ever happened to me. I’ll be on the dole before I give it up.
We were pushed to come back in 1-2 days a week minimum. I made my feelings clear that having discovered the many benefits of WFH I don’t wish to go back. But they more or less told me to suck it up
So I applied for a different job that’s 100% WFH. Once I notified my manager he took a 180° U-turn. He’s pleading with me not to leave, I can stay at home for good, forget they ever tried to bring me back in
I haven’t even been offered the new job yet! Either way I’ve secured 100% WFH for myself going forward
i havent been in the office in over 2 and a half years, i literally work with no people in the Irish office so was only going in once every 2 weeks pre-pandemic anyway…
It is really great and the amount of time saved commuting is unreal, the only downside is that is can become quite isolating after a while, ive struggled with that quite a bit.
Lines up with my employer. We were given the option of remote, hybrid or office arrangements and 79% picked remote, 20% picked hybrid and 1% picked office.
WFH has been a game changer for me. I can go to the gym before work now, and my evenings are my own from 5pm.
Workers need to simply put their foot down. Employers are apparently begging for staff, simply refuse to take a job that can be done from home that requires you in the office. These companies have been fucking us for years. Profits through the roof, CEO’s making billions while your average worker in on a pittance of a wage.
Let them go out of business if they won’t allow work from home.