I know this will vary a lot, so hypothetically let’s say you currently WFH/work remotely at least 3 days a week. Your commute to work takes an hour max (door to door) each way. If you were given the choice of a 4 day week working onsite, or a 5 day week WFH (or as many days as you’d like) for the same pay, which would you choose?

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    WFH. Unless I also get paid for commute time. Then, still WFH. Fuck traffic. This way, I’m neither dealing with it nor contributing to it.

    • 4am@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      I can go to the store or get some cleaning done on my lunch break, and I don’t have to spend time driving to do it. Fuck traffic.

    • Raxiel@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m pretty good on commute time. It was a 5-10 minute drive or a 25-30 minute walk. I’ve stuck there for years because working for any of their competitors are in the area and I’d have to go straight to an hour each way minimum.
      I wouldn’t mind going back in part time, if the hybrid office environment itself wasn’t so hostile to actually working, with sterile hot desks and everyone having loud overlapping conversations in their respective virtual meetings.

  • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    The commute time is kinda worse than work time, so the 4 days in the office are equal to 5 days WFH timewise. And I would still be missing out on benefits like cheaper lunch at home and wearing comfortable clothes, and not being tired all the time. On the other hand, I would always have 3 day weekends.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, count time getting ready and you’re easily wasting 1.5-2 hrs a day going to an office.

      When we started wfh, most people picked up overtime and still spent the same amount of time devoted to work with a significant pay increase.

      It’s a lot of time and effort everyone was just used to giving up for free. Why go back to it?

      Especially since it’s 2023 and we’re still getting new COVID waves.

  • inetknght@lemmy.ml
    0·
    1 year ago

    1. I work from home so that I don’t have to go to the office.

    2. I don’t have to go to the office.

    3. Let me work fewer days. 4x10 days would be nice. From home. So I don’t have to go to the office.

    4. I don’t want to go to the office just to be on Zoom all day anyway. It’s a waste of time, a waste of carbon, and a waste of company money on the office space.

      • inetknght@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes it’s true. Why go to the office just to be on Zoom all day? I can do that at home and save myself some money. More importantly: I can do that from home and save myself the time it would take to drive to or from the office. Not to mention that I could be on Zoom all day from home and save myself the stress of driving around maniacs. Last, but not least, I could do it all from home and the company could save money by not paying for an office.