<story><title>Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/return-to-office-employees-are-quitting-instead-of-giving-up-work-from-home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been doing WFH for 5 years and feel like the rest of the world just caught on. In addition to what you mention:&lt;p&gt;- Control of food. No more bagels or carb dumping ground. No more limited food options. My own kitchen.&lt;p&gt;- Control of equipment. Need a 4k monitor? Need a trackball? No approvals needed.&lt;p&gt;- Control of ergonomics. Get exactly the chair you need. Get an electric height adjustable desk without going through facilities.&lt;p&gt;- Control temperature. Never be too hot or cold.&lt;p&gt;- So many great options for breaks. Walk down the street. Meditate in the garden. Play Beatsaber. Take a nap, naps are magic.&lt;p&gt;- Control your lighting. Good color temperature and comfortable brightness make the space more relaxing and can aid sleep and wakefulness.&lt;p&gt;- The ultimate corner office. Privacy and separate space that you can personalize to your heart&amp;#x27;s content.&lt;p&gt;- Location flexibility. Work from a beach rental. Do a city-stay near a WeWork. Find a mountain cabin with high speed internet. Move to a new state without having to change jobs.&lt;p&gt;- Finances. Live in a low tax state. Have an older car. Spend less on clothes, lunches, parking, gas, tolls. Live in cheaper square footage without worrying about what it does to your commute.&lt;p&gt;- Stress. More emotional speration between you and your work. Relationships are through Zoom and require less emotional investment. Work forms less a part of your identity and changing it involves fewer changes to your daily routine.&lt;p&gt;- Caffeine. With more tools to manage your wakefulness, less need to lean on the crutch of caffeine. For me, less  caffeine means less alcohol as well.&lt;p&gt;Other people are free to have their opinions that they don&amp;#x27;t like WFH or can&amp;#x27;t wait to get back into the office. For me, I really struggle to understand how you cannot love it. With total control of my environment, I can easily correct for minor downsides such as needing to maintain work-life balance and good social connections. After years of optimization, I have a better quality of life than our CEO. I&amp;#x27;d be insane to give it up.</text></item><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>For me, the utility of being at home versus being at the office is massive. If I need a 15 minute break, I can start a load of laundry, or run the dishwasher, or do some other chore.&lt;p&gt;I can wake up later since I don&amp;#x27;t have a commute. I don&amp;#x27;t lose two hours a day due to the commute.&lt;p&gt;I can wear as comfortable clothing as I desire. I can delay my shower until after my daily workout (Which I can do since my workout equipment is at home).&lt;p&gt;I can control my environment so there are as many or as few distractions as i like. I can put on videos or audio that might not be considered work appropriate. I can use speakers since no one is around me to hear the sound.&lt;p&gt;The number and magnitude of inconveniences we subject ourselves to by heading to an office every day has been fully revealed. I will do all I can to work from home for the rest of my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nonameiguess</author><text>The other thing I don&amp;#x27;t see mentioned enough is the impact on disabled people. Thanks to spine issues, I can&amp;#x27;t comfortably drive. That has limited me to either working where a train line goes or at the same place with my wife where I can carpool with her as a passenger. WFH is one of the most freeing things that has ever happened to me. It not only frees me to work anywhere, but it also means I don&amp;#x27;t need to take as frequent breaks. I used to have to work at places that could accommodate my need to lay down to decompress several times a day, and that meant I couldn&amp;#x27;t do any actual work during that time. At home, I can much more easily keep working from bed when sitting or standing gets too painful.</text></comment>
<story><title>Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/return-to-office-employees-are-quitting-instead-of-giving-up-work-from-home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been doing WFH for 5 years and feel like the rest of the world just caught on. In addition to what you mention:&lt;p&gt;- Control of food. No more bagels or carb dumping ground. No more limited food options. My own kitchen.&lt;p&gt;- Control of equipment. Need a 4k monitor? Need a trackball? No approvals needed.&lt;p&gt;- Control of ergonomics. Get exactly the chair you need. Get an electric height adjustable desk without going through facilities.&lt;p&gt;- Control temperature. Never be too hot or cold.&lt;p&gt;- So many great options for breaks. Walk down the street. Meditate in the garden. Play Beatsaber. Take a nap, naps are magic.&lt;p&gt;- Control your lighting. Good color temperature and comfortable brightness make the space more relaxing and can aid sleep and wakefulness.&lt;p&gt;- The ultimate corner office. Privacy and separate space that you can personalize to your heart&amp;#x27;s content.&lt;p&gt;- Location flexibility. Work from a beach rental. Do a city-stay near a WeWork. Find a mountain cabin with high speed internet. Move to a new state without having to change jobs.&lt;p&gt;- Finances. Live in a low tax state. Have an older car. Spend less on clothes, lunches, parking, gas, tolls. Live in cheaper square footage without worrying about what it does to your commute.&lt;p&gt;- Stress. More emotional speration between you and your work. Relationships are through Zoom and require less emotional investment. Work forms less a part of your identity and changing it involves fewer changes to your daily routine.&lt;p&gt;- Caffeine. With more tools to manage your wakefulness, less need to lean on the crutch of caffeine. For me, less  caffeine means less alcohol as well.&lt;p&gt;Other people are free to have their opinions that they don&amp;#x27;t like WFH or can&amp;#x27;t wait to get back into the office. For me, I really struggle to understand how you cannot love it. With total control of my environment, I can easily correct for minor downsides such as needing to maintain work-life balance and good social connections. After years of optimization, I have a better quality of life than our CEO. I&amp;#x27;d be insane to give it up.</text></item><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>For me, the utility of being at home versus being at the office is massive. If I need a 15 minute break, I can start a load of laundry, or run the dishwasher, or do some other chore.&lt;p&gt;I can wake up later since I don&amp;#x27;t have a commute. I don&amp;#x27;t lose two hours a day due to the commute.&lt;p&gt;I can wear as comfortable clothing as I desire. I can delay my shower until after my daily workout (Which I can do since my workout equipment is at home).&lt;p&gt;I can control my environment so there are as many or as few distractions as i like. I can put on videos or audio that might not be considered work appropriate. I can use speakers since no one is around me to hear the sound.&lt;p&gt;The number and magnitude of inconveniences we subject ourselves to by heading to an office every day has been fully revealed. I will do all I can to work from home for the rest of my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kat</author><text>I liked how to worded &amp;quot;emotional separation&amp;quot;
The reduction in my stress has been amazing, especially considering we&amp;#x27;ve been in the middle of covid. My moods are way better regulated now. I&amp;#x27;m no longer trying to ignore my angry office mate who&amp;#x27;s muttering under his breath. I didn&amp;#x27;t realize how much upset people influence my own mood. I thought I was good at ignoring angry people, but the action of ignoring took up a lot more energy than I previously thought. My biggest worry about back-to-office is how I&amp;#x27;m going to managed my increased stress levels.</text></comment>