There are a lot of news articles about “back to the office”, but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let’s provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible.
I would like my work computer to do Windows updates lightning quick in the office. It currently takes weeks, in or out of the office. Stopping in for a day makes no difference, so there is no point. Now, if there was a point, I would go in.
What would get you in the office?
I’d settle for a 4 day week of 8 hour days
Regularly? Nothing. I go there to access material most of the time.
A 50% salary increase. I lose hours a week commuting, thats my life being taken away.
Not to mention getting sick because co-workers come in sick, the loudness of stupid open office spaces, douchebags who wont bathe before work…
The office sucks ass and my house is a much better environment for me working.
As a small business owner: nothing. My employees have been extremely productive being able to work from home. We already drive more than the average job. Driving to the office just watses time and money for everyone. We use our office now for storage more than anything else.
A much better setup than my home one. A private office with sound dampening. Dual 4K+ monitors. A large wall mounted TV for casting training videos or collaborating. A coffee and desert cart.
What country?
Desperation or buckets of money.
I’m employed now, and actually pretty happy with my job. It would take a lot of money to get me to work in an office again.
But realistically, a couple months of unemployment would be more than enough to make me jump at any office job that would allow me to live comfortably.
I sometimes have to. Not because someone tells me to, but because my physical presence is actually needed.
Sometimes I have to fly in from my middle-of-nowhere home office because whatever system I was troubleshooting wasn’t fixable via VPN. And said system can be anywhere in the world, so it doesn’t really matter where I live.
So returning to an office based work location? Yeah, that ain’t happening…
Honestly, I don’t anything can be appealing enough. If I get desperate, then I would go back, but not really willingly.
My home office is great, I don’t need to commute, i can cook and eat proper meals and generally enjoy my workday more.
Cocobolo desk
Teleportation technology
Absolutely nothing