Do you still work from home?

Do you still work from home?

  • Yes - I only work remotely

    Votes: 136 40.7%

  • Yes - I work according to a hybrid model

    Votes: 104 31.1%

  • No - I only work in the office

    Votes: 74 22.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 20 6.0%
  • Total voters
    334
I work according to my clients need to meet me f2f and my need for a coffee buddy.

One week I do not leave the house, next week I am five days at office.
 
I've worked remotely since the pandemic.

My current position wanted in-office (and their staff are in 3 days per week) but being a consultant I have got away with minimal visits.

My new job is fully remote.

Interestingly my wife had an interview where the JHB branch of the company wants to stay remote but the DBN branch wants in office.

I really think people need to just let people work how they want to, instead of policing grown adults. Like there ARE occasions where in-person matters. Also it's mostly managers and ceos that want in office staff...I think it's silly to limit your company (if you can do your work remotely) to essentially an 80km radius.
 
RedViking said:
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Where did you get that old clip of @purple face from?
 
Working from home since 2020. Our head office has 2 ladies at the office every day. They could also WFH. But then I sit with an empty office that costs us levies and utilities each month. It is an office space in a medical building, that we bought somewhere in the 90's. So there is no rent or monthly payments except for the ones mentioned oh and the fibre. It takes me 5 minutes to drive there.

Also no market to sell the premises atm as there are a couple of empty offices in the building. Asking price would also be a bit rough. So the market is tight.
But I do have a plan to add a few employees who can work from there full-time sometime in the future.
 
Dylan_G said:
Do you feel like the 10 days makes sense?

I feel those arbitrary "fulfil x days in the office" rules might be a bit meaningless.

I haven't worked in the office since 2020.
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Yeah - I also would prefer working from home completely - absolutely no need to go to the office unless you really have to on occasions
 
100% WFH, next company I'm moving to as well.
There is an office, can choose to go in once in a while, usually do once a week or every second, but it's discussion with colleagues when everyone wants to go.

Been interviewing recently, basically no company didn't do at least hybrid for software devs, or at least I didn't seem to find one while going through listings that wasn't.

For any industry where employees are in demand, not insisting on at least hybrid is odd to me, so much time in traffic.
 
Johnatan56 said:
100% WFH, next company I'm moving to as well.
There is an office, can choose to go in once in a while, usually do once a week or every second, but it's discussion with colleagues when everyone wants to go.

Been interviewing recently, basically no company didn't do at least hybrid for software devs, or at least I didn't seem to find one while going through listings that wasn't.

For any industry where employees are in demand, not insisting on at least hybrid is odd to me, so much time in traffic.
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I found a few but with some caveats e.g. visits every 6 weeks, training or 'if you are the right fit'.

I find it VERY odd considering the scarcity of dev skills. I think the employers need to wake up because they ARE trying to recruit but they are limiting themselves massively, and surveyed devs do not want in-office by-in-large. Further, international work is still possible to find too.
 
Hybrid. Although I am getting more and more fed up with people that take chances with WFH and will ruin it for the rest of us. So I am the a-hole who forced some people to come into the office :

Some common arguments which might be valid but is sometimes abused:
1) "I am more productive.". Just because you spend more time at your desk doesn't make you productive. The amount of wasted work because somebody gets busy with doing something that is not the right thing, regardless how cool or whatever is staggering.

2)" We can talk on Teams". Yes but you have to communicate. If you work in a team people need to know what you are busy with and when you will be complete and what the issues are. You have to let them know. Just attending Teams meetings is not communicating.

3) "I don't want to work here because of xyz". The most BS thing ever - somebody complains about all the issues but haven't told anybody, nobody have seen them having issues etc


So the above doesn't speak to WFH or not, but rather how you WFH.

I am hybrid because a bunch of idiots ruined it for the rest of us. And I understand why companies are going hybrid or full-time. I am not happy about it, but I understand it and will gladly performance manage somebody that insists on WFH but gives headaches to either come into the office or get fired.

My 2c.
 
I can work a couple of days a week from Home, but I actually prefer working from the office.
So generally, I never work from home unless absolutely necessary.
 
was office bound most of my Career, but lately trying out this work from home fad,
during the pandemic my office was isolated BUT I still had to work from the office, as much as that sucked,
now its more on the road, so technically its ALWAYS WFH, but technically I can choose, and not always its per demand
 
10 days (our choice) per month. End of each month the top achievers get to work entire month from home
 
For the most part, just in office 2 days a week but its super flexible with renovations happening been working exclusively from home for the last month. had one mandatory in person meeting this past week
 
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