I'm a cloud engineer working with a team across the US and a development team in India. My closest co-worker is my boss that brought me on-board and a quick 20 minute drive away (known him for a while). He's the anomaly.

The next closest I believe would be 3 states away. If for some reason I was to be in an office, my day would literally be unchanged. It would be me working in the cloud (which isn't location-dependent) and me on Teams/Zoom meetings with my co-workers.

If a job can be done remote, it's dumb to require in-person work. This is doubly true if they wouldn't see their co-workers face-to-face anyway.

I will never go back to in the office 5 days a week. I would take a pay cut before that.

Every federal worker just had to start thanks to Biden stripping the decision from individual agencies

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/white-house-cabinet-in-person-work/index.html

Republicans were the only ones asking for it tho, and obviously as soon as Biden did it, they stopped mentioning it.

There's no reason to try and appease Republicans, because they'll never give Dems credit, even if a moderate one does exactly what they want.

#WFH4Life

WFH if possible should be mandated for environmental reasons

So why do some bosses still feel it necessary to prolong the slow and necessary death of The Office? Beats me.

Because corporations paid for rental contracts for many years ahead, and also because a lot of local businesses depends on people buying expensive coffees and lunches to stay afloat.

This is why media is pushing for it, because the people who owns the media is also owning those restaurants and coffee places.

It always, always is about money in capitalism. I'm surprised this article comes from CNN to be honest. How did it get through the wall of groupthink.

I hope more media content continues to call out the benefits of remote work while criticizing the nonsensical need to sit in a chair, next to other people that oftentimes don't want to be there.

Because wealthy office building owners are pushing everyone to keep using the offices.

It seems it's rarely brought up in these conversations, but another stupid thing about return to office is that we know that commuting is a major contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and particulate pollution. So working from home would not only be an improvement in work conditions, sparing millions of individuals hours of wasted commuting time each week, it would also be an easy way to reduce pollution and mitigate global warming.

Laws should be passed that mandate employees can work from home whenever it cannot be demonstrated by the company hiring them that being on site is absolutely necessary to do the job.

After 3 years of working from home, I'm kind of enjoying my new job from office. We do have hybrid mode but I'm still new to qualify for that.