Controversial Opinion on WFH vs RTO

Now why everyone is talking about benefits of working from office? I saw post from Sunil Shetty on linkedin. My take is, when pandemic hit companies asked employees to WFH to keep wheel rolling. Now we know WFH can give greater control over personal and professional life(at least for me) we don’t want to go back to office. In my opinion corporate want us to work from office cause, - they can control our time, 9hrs in ofc, you are getting paid for time not skills. - they want to show who is the boss here. - Learning is key reason for WFO, bullshit, we have a lot of learning portals and traffic time can be used to learn but it is never a intention. What you guys think?

I am 26 now. And started my career in 2018 when i was 21, and from my first day till now I am doing a wfh. Initially it felt good as you get lots of personal time, no travel time and expenses. And then in covid while people where panicking switching to wfh, I was already adapt to it very well. But lately I have now started seeing some negative impacts of it. 1- Social life is at stake as I went to study outside my home town and almost lost all my connections here. 2- No personal interaction with people on higher position than you as that helps a lot in ones upbringing. 3- Following same life style for years and years. 4- Poor physical health and mental health being in a room for 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 2-4 hours more depending on other tasks. Adding to it now i feel it makes more sense having a office job which makes you feel more lively and a part of society.

He was previously the biggest proponent of WFH. But he recently said this: Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week Looks like most companies will kill WFH long term 🤕

Not trying to be a critic here, nor trying to tarnish the reputation. But just wondering why does employee friendly policies like these change so quickly? Do investors and leaders get FOMO? Hey Amazon has called everyone to office so let's do it too. Or does the Work from anywhere policy was temporarily to attract good talent? FYI, this remote policy was scrapped within 1 year of implementing it.

Folks ,Please correct me if i am wrong favouring Work from home , instead of WFO, as quite many are in strong favor of WFO and their narrative is office bring collaborative, conducive/ fostering environment to professional growth as we are in constant engagement with our peers , attending seminars , bootcamps , events , games or any volunteer activities .Overall this transform our cognitive ability towards higher versioning of ourself ... What are you favouring for WFH or WFO ?

Hey Fellow Grapeviners , I have created an anonymous Remote work survey to distinguish companies who offer Permanent Remote (Permanent WFH ) , Hybrid - Attendance , Compulsory office attendance companies and segregate them . Often there are some circumstances , which favour Permanent WFH , like ailing parents or young kid to look after , Also, the commute these days in most metros is painful and often tiring . Also, companies are leveraging war driven economic troubles to push and leverage for office attendance . There is still a section of employees who prefer WFH over WFO or Hybrid . These survey should help such people . Google Forms Survey link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxUekpfOIp-LoNpUvPQND4DdA0aGqbXiE7pFCb69FgN2yLbw/viewform The Google form Data Sheet : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mv4I0QZf1y7Gf7B48r_-DYVoDiF-IBq_aFT4GEDwlGg/edit#gid=0 Google form captures the information while it gets stored in a Google sheet for the same in flat way . Statistics sheet captures the data count of WFH vs WFO Vs Hybrid . Next 3 sheets segregate the date of WFH , WFO and Hybrid . Last sheet is the raw data in flat format . No need to log in to your Gmail account , You can also fill the survey form and access the Google sheet incognito. No name needed . This survey has some approximate 70 records from the time when it was posted on Reddit post on r/developersIndia , Please fill the survey form whenever possible . Let's help each other find our dream job with WFH or hybrid benefits. Do share this on other anonymous or semi anonymous forums , let's use organised information to our leverage . Please talk about this if possible, word of mouth mode . No karma is intended from this post , but do like this post so that it reaches to most people , IF somebody can pin this post for a day or two that would be great .

I know this is not what majority of people like to listen, but for people coming from other cities with no friends and poor social skills, working remote or hybrid starts taking a toll on your mental health. The isolation it brings is so overwhelming. You feel trapped and frustrated, when there's no one to talk to. Sometimes, I feel the quality of life of our kind of lower than street vendors at least they have people they can talk to. I just hate the way we are wired to be social animals yet find it overly difficult to connect with people.