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iman29 said:
At the new job Just found out I can work at home thru Labor Day starting next week due to internal office moves and relocations.
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I know most people that started working from home during covid are not happy about going back to the office, but after almost five years of working from home full time, I need to GTFO of the house. I tried going to a coworking space down in Morristown a few times in the recent past, but it's a 15-20 minute drive and I have to park in a garage, and it's a pain in the ass. I recently found a coworking space that is four minutes from my house, and I started going there this week. I put on adult pants three days in a row and went to an actual office. It's made a world of difference for me so far. TBD if I continue doing this long term.
 
JimN said:
I know most people that started working from home during covid are not happy about going back to the office, but after almost five years of working from home full time, I need to GTFO of the house. I tried going to a coworking space down in Morristown a few times in the recent past, but it's a 15-20 minute drive and I have to park in a garage, and it's a pain in the ass. I recently found a coworking space that is four minutes from my house, and I started going there this week. I put on adult pants three days in a row and went to an actual office. It's made a world of difference for me so far. TBD if I continue doing this long term.
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I feel the same. I hate dragging myself into the office, but I'm generally happier when I do. A 2/3 or 3/2 split each week seems to be a good combination of seeing people/maintaining mental health and also not feeling like you're wasting tons of time each week "putting on adult pants" and commuting. Obviously different depending on personality, type of job, length of commute, hatred of coworkers, etc.
 
JimN said:
I know most people that started working from home during covid are not happy about going back to the office, but after almost five years of working from home full time, I need to GTFO of the house. I tried going to a coworking space down in Morristown a few times in the recent past, but it's a 15-20 minute drive and I have to park in a garage, and it's a pain in the ass. I recently found a coworking space that is four minutes from my house, and I started going there this week. I put on adult pants three days in a row and went to an actual office. It's made a world of difference for me so far. TBD if I continue doing this long term.
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JimN said:
I know most people that started working from home during covid are not happy about going back to the office, but after almost five years of working from home full time, I need to GTFO of the house. I tried going to a coworking space down in Morristown a few times in the recent past, but it's a 15-20 minute drive and I have to park in a garage, and it's a pain in the ass. I recently found a coworking space that is four minutes from my house, and I started going there this week. I put on adult pants three days in a row and went to an actual office. It's made a world of difference for me so far. TBD if I continue doing this long term.
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These "coworking spaces", are they with people from your company or strangers?
 
ebarker9 said:
I feel the same. I hate dragging myself into the office, but I'm generally happier when I do. A 2/3 or 3/2 split each week seems to be a good combination of seeing people/maintaining mental health and also not feeling like you're wasting tons of time each week "putting on adult pants" and commuting. Obviously different depending on personality, type of job, length of commute, hatred of coworkers, etc.
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As someone who works in manufacturing, which was deemed "essential" during C19, I need to be in the office like 95% of the time. My stress level from commuting was much lower when everyone was working from home. We had our best years ever during that time as well. This year, not so good and the hatred of coworkers is increasing.
 
JDurk said:
As someone who works in manufacturing, which was deemed "essential" during C19, I need to be in the office like 95% of the time. My stress level from commuting was much lower when everyone was working from home. We had our best years ever during that time as well. This year, not so good and the hatred of coworkers is increasing.
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Likewise, also full manufacturing and on-site 100% since April 2020. Looking at a transition to fully remote for 3-5yrs, then 50/50 on-site while developing new sites. I really look forward to this change...🙂
 
This new job has a specific hybrid plan in place - M & F home, T W Th office. Its a big adjustment for me since during Covid and even the 10+ years before that I was pretty much working from home all the time (Global IT stuff). The only difference during COVID was it forced me to clean the basement and set up an official home office space and desk and get rid of 30 years worth of crap.

It hasn't been horrible since the commute is not bad (30ish minutes) and since its a new job, there's new people to meet anyway. I had a lot of flexibility in the old job and i do miss my breaks to walk the dog, run to the store or ride my bike (not in that order). then again that place was dragging me down for years and was a dead end job facing another round of layoffs so I had to make a change on my own terms. Basically a weekend warrior cyclist again with some Zwift or Rowing machine sessions early mornings.
 
JerseyPete said:
I just looked one up. It is like someone took a storage place, changed it to offices and added internet and a crapper and charges 10X more. Pretty good idea.
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Some are better than others, but yeah pretty much. The one I go to has a community membership option that is only $125/month for 9-5 access to all the common areas. It doesn't include a shared or dedicated desk, but based on how few shared desks memberships they currently have, I can use the shared desks too. Also, my company reimburses me for it, so it's kind of a no-brainer.
 
I have worked from home for 7 years now. And through all of that I think going into the office still blows. I’ll never go back unless something significant changes.

I do travel for work on occasion and I’m on video calls all day. I get more people face time now than ever. I’m good with this, especially because if you’re acting like a douche I can end the call and say my internet went down.
 
Norm said:
I have worked from home for 7 years now. And through all of that I think going into the office still blows. I’ll never go back unless something significant changes.
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I actually miss being in the office at my old job, because I was good friends with everyone on my team. We spent like half the day just bullshitting and busting balls. It was also only like a 7 minute commute, so not really much of a time burden.

I've reached a point where I just really needed a change of scenery. I was really close to quitting my job recently, but figure I'll try this out instead.
 
JimN said:
I actually miss being in the office at my old job, because I was good friends with everyone on my team. We spent like half the day just bullshitting and busting balls. It was also only like a 7 minute commute, so not really much of a time burden.

I've reached a point where I just really needed a change of scenery. I was really close to quitting my job recently, but figure I'll try this out instead.
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I could probably get you a new job that entails going on mountain bike trips in New England. Watch my Strava over the next few days for a snapshot.

No Monaco but we are going to Aruba this March.
 
JimN said:
I actually miss being in the office at my old job, because I was good friends with everyone on my team. We spent like half the day just bullshitting and busting balls. It was also only like a 7 minute commute, so not really much of a time burden.

I've reached a point where I just really needed a change of scenery. I was really close to quitting my job recently, but figure I'll try this out instead.
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You could totally just come to my office and sit at the conference table and/or an empty desk/office. Joy has done that.

I do have to say, especially with a work from home wife, it's nice to go to the office for the change of scenery. I'm going to be full remote at some point in the near future and I think it's going to drive me nuts.
 
rick81721 said:
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so say fred had 3 urinals. (not counting dirty employee bathrooms)
by not using water to flush (they still clean them) that saves up2 135,000 gal/yr (claimed)
there are 365 days in a year, they are closed on sunday and a couple other random days, so say 310.
On average, they save 435 gal per open day. just happens that the epa claims 1.0 gal per flush on public urinal -

quick fred search says they are open about 11 hours per day.
that is 40 pees per hour or about 13 per urinal per hour.

if they had 40 people (incl sales people) taking a leak each hour, 6 days per week, i think they'd be doing ok.

maybe we could collect some empirical data..
 
JimN said:
Our second bedroom is an office, and I have a desk with a nice large monitor. The wife also has a desk in here, but she rarely uses it.
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Ok well then maybe you're on to something with this leaving the house bit. I do have an office to myself, which the dog occasionally wanders into. Mostly it's just me alone. I think that is somewhat key to being comfortable.

That and coffee.
 
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