How was your work from home experience during lockdown and after COVID? Anyone would like to share any funny moments or situations you had while working from home?

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How was your WFH experience?

Enterprise

How was your WFH experience?- Grapevine

I'm working from Home from past 8 years out of my 14 YOE. 
we don't have an ODC or seats allocated thus no option to goto office. 
During the initial days, I felt blessed about this WFH and lately it impacts my work life balance. 
I binge eating and binge watch tv shows when there's no priority work.

I feel I don't have any motivation to learn anything and also feel disconnected whenever I meet another techie. 

How do you all cope with WFH?


Thank you 🙏

WFH Saga

DevOps Engineer

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I always hated WFH during Covid days. I have always made good friends at work. Sometimes even girlfriends (when I leave the company). 

Now I recently joined a company with amazing salary. But it’s work from home. I spend most of my time on a bed. Even if I do something productive, that’s completely being alone. 

Sometimes I go days without speaking a word. And I can’t talk to old friends every day. It’s become very lonely and I really miss Working from Office. 

P.S: I stay in a rented flat with a friend. Even he’s most of the time unavailable due to his office.

Work From Home what do you do for fun?

Growth Manager

I have been on a permanent wfh role since covid. Yes, been 2+ years since I stepped into an office. I stay alone and have little expenses but also 0 social life. Friends are all spread out. Not on any dating app because its exhausting. Can someone just talk about any impacts on their personal life from work life? Does anyone here feel a void too? I’d love to connect.

WFH = 0 Social Life

I have been working remotely and honestly, I don't want to go to office ever (at least that's what I feel right now) 
  
 I don't want to become besties with my coworkers, and I stay with family so I'm very happy spending all my time with my favourite people in the world! I also have the option of traveling and have decided to take an out of Delhi trip every 2 months at least 
  
 I might be biased, because my parents and immediate family are professionals as well and have home offices, so all my life, I've had the kind of atmosphere where offices don't play a huge role, so I'm happy! 
  
 But yes, I suppose I do get the socialising aspect, it becomes harder to make friends as one grows older, especially when all your school/college friends have office jobs 🙃🙃

Lawyer

Operations Manager

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?

WFH vs WFO

WFO- if you’re at entry level/early days of your career 
 WFH- works for mid- senior folks

Strategy & Operations

Network Administrator

As asked in the title. During office timings, I am really anxious to the point that I am unable to relax during lunch breaks as I am afraid I will get a message or a call that I might have to jump into. I know it sounds stupid, but I spend nearly 10 hours everyday with crippling anxiety. It has become so bad, I am considering quitting to work on myself just to get rid of this anxiety. However the Current market scenario doesn't allow me to me do this. I have asked my friends and family about this, but everyone says 'don't quit', 'work hard' Etc. I am sick of hearing this.

How do you deal with the crippling anxiety for WFH?

Project Manager

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.

Work from home- A unordinary lifestyle

Team Lead

Being thankful in every little things brings contentment and self satisfaction! Yes indeed try it out. I have personally experienced it hence sharing the same. 

Here in GV I mostly see posts where people grumble about their salary being insufficient and rto is annoying etc, I really wonder how it was before covid ?! Did we have the WFH in TCS no right. It was clear that WFO was the deal and things were gng normal then. Suddenly the Covid changed the game yet haven't we see people working in banks, hospitals etc work from office only what if they say they don't like working from office. Pause to think!

It makes sense if you are not satisfied with your salary and justifying job role, eventually one can indeed look for elevation. Put your efforts and get that desired job and move on. That's being productive and optimistically. Grumbling is not the solution any day. I am OK if anyone reads this post and criticizes cus again that's not going to affect me. 

We must learnt to appreciate the little things and be Thankful to God for everything. Without this we cannot see any good in anything we receive in life. There will always be a void and that will never get fulfilled without the heart of contentment.

Be thankful!

Business Analyst

I am doing work from home from last 2 year and it's pretty good

but my entire friend circle has moved to their office location delhi, blr aur Bombay and my college friends also got split into different cities

Sure, we catch up during occasional visits or hometown hangouts and trips, but most days, it's just me, myself, and my laptop. I've tried moving to Bangalore and stayed couple of months, but traffic take lot of time to just meet  friends and people are mostly into over work and then just drinking and smoking and don't want to talk about flats, transport and other problem

so whoever doing work from home from their hometown, how do you deal with this

my hometown is tier 3 city and routine is kind of wake up, coding, gym, movies or anime or leetcode and sleep

How to deal with wfh

Software Engineer

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Guys if someone has same experience want you to share such here.  My office made work from office hybrid in a week but wants everyone to report office every week atleast twice. However they made a exception thar if you have some problem you can do wfh entirely. 
There were two cases

There was a newly married women collegue who wants wfh entirely as she has the problem of shifting to new city alone.

Then there is me who has been recovering from a leg fracture. Asking for a extension as commuting to office and doing self chores will be a problem alone in a new city.

In both these cases the first person got the work from home extension . And me commuting office with 1.5 legs every day. 

How these justify a equality in work place???

Work from home extension

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I have been wfh for than a year now, my parents would keep ordering me to do small household work even when I’m working. I have asked them not to do that as it distracts me, but they will not simply listen and even scold me and compare me with others that they help their parents 😅

I have thought about just going to a different city and wfh from there but my parents are also getting old so have to think about that also.

People who are WFH, how do you stay focused in work when your family members / parents keep distracting you?

I distract myself scrolling reels, who else can distract me 😭

Software Developer

Associate

Employees doing WFH since COVID are rare species

Software Test - QA

After my college was finished. I started working in the infosec field and am still doing it since the last 1.5 years. The work is Remote and since I have WFH. I just feel very frustrated all the time. I don't have any friends who live near me. So I'm just unable to meet with anyone. 

I always came across these vlogs video ( day in the life of ...) And I feel they are enjoying their life the food, going to different places with colleagues clubs etc. 

So just wanted to ask all the people who go to the office. Since I have never been into one. Is it really cool?

WFH or going to the office.

Security Engineer

https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/peak-bengaluru-moment-virtual-hotel-receptionist-gets-netizens-commenting-on-social-media-see-pic

Everyone wants WFH😅😁😆

Did your company provide any funds to bootstrap a work from home office? If yes, how much was it? 

I've been asked to come up with a number for myself, hence wanted to know what's the market standard for it.

WFH Office Setup

I'm a 2023 grad but I've worked in VC/HFT/GSoC/startups

I'm so fed up with the WFO culture. What do you even get by getting employees in office?

What's the point? I'm an engineer, I can write code from anywhere on the planet with internet and laptop.

Been looking for a role since August, while having a solid dev ex yet all these fools are WFO that reduces half the number of companies I want to work for.

Any suggestions or am I being a fool?

RANT: I HATE WFO

Does anyone miss being in lockdown for any reason or not ? Why ?

Lockdown / Quarantine

Curious to know what to do folks here do in their working hours when they are having a chill workload week/day in a WFH setup.

I just hopelessly wait for some ping or adhoc task to come up and end up wasting the whole time scrolling the phone.

How was your WFH experience?

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