Rant: I Don't Need an Office. Let Me Work Remotely
0xff.nuThe office is usually an "open" office. Thats horrible. If you want devs back how about giving an actual office.
The amount of BS talk and noice at the office is unbearable. Fart sounds. Kitchen sounds. Meetings, phone calls etc.
I always end up sitting with headphones (noice canceling) and some music and try to work.
Thats why i only go once or twice a week.
> Fart sounds
When that happens, have you asked the person to be more mindful?
During the pandemic when we worked from home that first year management said productivity went up. A great success. Now they want people to come back to the office where productivity was lower. There has been no mention of productivities numbers dropping. The only reason provided was "because".
Have you considered that there could be a difference in short term and long term trends?
Yes, that’s why I mentioned that changing trends were never brought up. If reasons were given, backed by data, maybe people would be more receptive to the return to office. Instead it just ends up looking like a power play or real estate justification, which workers don’t care about.
> Do I suddenly communicate like a caveman just because my face shows up on a screen?
I have seen people be rude and disrespectful in larger virtual meetings when they wouldn’t have behaved that way in person.
I dread wasting my own personal time to commute to an office I really do not need or want. Yet it seems I'm left with no choice.
> Yet it seems I'm left with no choice.
You have agency.