Current Events > Has the pandemic showed you how you don't need an office to do your job?

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While businesses need a central base of operations, this thing shows just how the internet has rendered the concept of reporting to them as obsolete in alot of cases. I've been having a blast chatting up people, and selling insurance/customer service from my apartment. Uber use would passively dent my entertainment budget too, so that's nice to not deal with for now.

Note: An introverted bachelor, so isolation doesn't bother me as much as others. And...Imunocompromised.


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It's highlighted for me how much I miss being outside of my house even if its doing a job I don't particularly love

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Yes and no.

Like wfh depends on who you live with, and the space you have to set equipment. I think if me and everyone else started like that, it'd work fine.

Me just working off a laptop in random places in the house, sucks.

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My life barely changed as I work at a hospital

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Yup, all I need is a computer to do my job.

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I've started to do therapy on Zoom so for my future career I see that an office isn't 100% necessary but still greatly prefer real life contact.

My current job is fast food so the pandemic didn't show me shit there

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I prefer to separate my life and my work as much as possible. Its hard to do that when you wfh

My office is a restaurant so "working" has been zoom meetings smh

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A lot of people dint like the idea of bringing their work home. I know I dont. Home is supposed to be a relaxing place to get away from work.

No exaggeration it has honestly forever changed me, I'm terrified of the day we get called back to work and will immediately begin looking for a new work-from-home job once that happens.

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Yes, actually. Im hoping my boss embraces the work from home model going forward. Save us some money too not having to rent office space.
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No. Though oddly this is the first job ive ever had where I do sit at a desk and do paper work.

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pinky0926 posted...

It's highlighted for me how much I miss being outside of my house even if its doing a job I don't particularly love

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the pandemic has showed me that being in this house for more than 48 hours makes me want to kill myself

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The core work i do in consulting has always been able to be done remotely but this experience only works when everyone else has to work remotely too. Once things get back to normal, societal norms around face to face interactions for certain discussions whether it be sales pitch, pricing, negotiation, etc. will come back and working remotely will probably be at most 20% of my time.

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I miss the hottie at the office who comes to my desk to gives me my faxes. Made me feel like a king.

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The main thing I need the office for is the printer resources. I print a lot of paper and Im not keen on buying 2-3 ink cartridges a week.

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keeping my distance
https://youtu.be/Mgv_VUABsZ0

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I don't need the office to do my job, no.

But i need it to do the job effectively.

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No because I don't work in an office.
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I am also an immunocompromised, introverted bachelor. We should form separate clubs consisting of 1 member each.

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gloBal enemy posted...

The core work i do in consulting has always been able to be done remotely but this experience only works when everyone else has to work remotely too. Once things get back to normal, societal norms around face to face interactions for certain discussions whether it be sales pitch, pricing, negotiation, etc. will come back and working remotely will probably be at most 20% of my time.

Yeah... It still probably doesn't mean I need an office but I'd still have to leave the house a lot more if I were working from home in normal times

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Ive always had the choice to wfh but I just get a lot more shit done when I can ask my lead dev a question or my SQL guy to look some info up quickly

messaging through Skype means slower response time for these things

This should have been obvious years ago. Which means more and more people could just live wherever they wanted in the country and stop consolidating in and around the same urban citys. Inflating the housing prices.

Lord knows that would help in more epxnaisive locals such like silicon valley, Seattle, los Angelo's or NYC.

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Shablagoo posted...

I am also an immunocompromised, introverted bachelor. We should form separate clubs consisting of 1 member each.

But then I won't feel like a rebel anymore. >_>

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No, I run tests on samples of rock and sand in a lab.
Technically doable at home, but I wouldn't be able to test concrete mixes.

I'm "essential". Bleh. Least I got work.

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