Good question. Since I never worked from home before, in my mind it is exactly the same thing. When the lockout ends I'll be the first to go back to the campus. Also, most of our students are yearning to resume the in-person classes. For me, doing math has always been a matter of several people scribbling together on a blackboard.
I don't understand this either. This existed at our company before remote work because we have global offices. People who had early or late meetings may take them from home AND then still had to commute to the office. Otherwise they'd had to get up even earlier to commute first.
It seems like a pretty common scenario, at least to me. There’s a 1 hour meeting to present Project X Status to Executive Y. You are presenting for 20 minutes so are required. Exec Y’s schedule for the next month rules everything out besides next Tuesday at 6am. You can’t just decline and not show up. You just have to suck it up and wake up earlier that day.
This scenario is actually much easier in COVID-WFH because I can just roll out of the bed at 5:45am, run a comb through my hair and fire up the videoconference. When I worked from office it meant waking up at 3:30am, leaving my house at 4am, and getting into the office by 5:30am.
> Exec Y’s schedule for the next month rules everything out besides next Tuesday at 6am.
Eh? My schedule for the month rules out anything before 9am.
I guess we’re not going to have that meeting then unless Mr exec thinks it’s more important than something else on his schedule (which is healthy anyway, he shouldn’t have to wake up at 6 any more than you do.)
You're obviously, like most people on here, talking from a position of privilege. I don't blame you because I've been there.
You also might not be working for a properly distributed global team. Execs I work for are on the other side of the world.
I've said this before by the exec's at my company tell me they have to attend meetings at weird times, so I should have to as well.
Not everyone at the moment has the luxury to just put their job on the line by telling their manager to go stick it. I for example am not in my native country an I rely on my job to support my visa. If I lose my job right now, my visa is potentially lost at a time where finding another job might not be very straight forwards and where my home country isn't allowing citizens to return home yet.
It isn't all bad, I think distributed work culture is evolving and adapting, it's just right now there are certainly inconveniences for those pioneering it.
Absolutely. There is absolutely nothing I miss about the office. I get my own bathroom at home that is clean and doesn't smell like shit all day long. I don't have to time my bathroom breaks or wait in line. I don't have to search on different floors to find a free bathroom. Not to mention the shitty quality public bathrooms you have in the US with 1 inch gaps so people get a nice view of you taking a dump.
I can do laundry during the day, I can go exercise during the day. I can take a nap if I'm tired.
Meetings start on time more often because you don't have to wait for a meeting rooms to clear out.
I could go on and on. I will say this though, I hope everyone gets to work the way it works for them. I'm not going to tell people that want to work in an office that they shouldn't be able to. I hope we get the same respect and not have in-office advocates push their ideal environment on remote workers.
