Why does everyone want permanent WFH? Does this mean we can't go to the office if we wanted to anymore? Will offices be almost completely empty for those that do want to return? I'm a new grad, so going to the office is one of things I'm looking forward to the most, but if nobody is there, that'll be wack too. For people my age, it's definitely not a good idea to be hermitting at home 24/7 with no social interaction
Majority of people want hybrid wfh/office. A more flexible lifestyle.
Majority wants permanent
It depends where you live/what your commute is like/the culture of the workplace. I prefer wfh cause I have the flexibility to do my chores and errands when needed and work on my own time outside of meetings. Office life is glamorized when young but gets old fast. After just 2 years of working I don’t mind not going to office ever again.
We just got that option at Microsoft
I agree, I think people are being shortsighted, and not thinking of the long term impacts on salary, promotion potential, etc. Cheaper cities are usually cheaper for a reason, and most young people I know still want to live in ny/dc/sf/etc rather than Idaho
There are other nice smaller cities for affordable COL: Austin, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta for example.
Those cities can’t compare to coastal hubs though in terms of lifestyle and intellectualism. This is coming from someone who moved to Texas after living in SF and DC. The access to culture, art, global cuisine, etc was not even close, and I ended up moving back as soon as I could.
Ideally, I think companies like Twitter are ideal. They have their main office open for people to work out of anytime, but people can also work from home wherever they want. That freedom to work from anywhere is extremely valuable.
‘Everyone’ is a very loose term. Pretty sure preferences will differ across various demographics. I suspect eventually teams will have to make choices about being remote/not-remote/semi-remote. So it will be yet another variable to consider as part of team selection.
Cisco culture has been hybrid for a long time. It doesn’t matter where you sit as long as you get work done.
People will run back to the office when they will start receiving chats such as : "Oh !!! Sorry by the way we forgot to tell you, we had a meeting today at the office and we decided X." My bet is that just like 9/11, which was absolutely horrible (I am not downplaying it) but is now part of history, people will forget Coronavirus in a few years.
Not if they sell off their buildings and have no office to go to
Hey OP, ppl are scared of getting infected . Coming back to office is the matter of COvid is disappeared or not. If there is no vaccination, whatever you like to socialize or not, we are all screwed. Need to stay at home.
Make friends outside of office than you will be fine. Too much extra time in wfh
Right but one of the biggest draws for tech offices are the perks; I don't know why people don't like the office when it's literally made for people to like???
People like tech offices, but they are still offices at the end of the day