<story><title>People love working remotely</title><url>https://usefyi.com/remote-work-report/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolco</author><text>Happened to me.  What I did was go into the office and constantly talk to the vp&amp;#x27;s and ceo.  Not about anything important really boring weather&amp;#x2F;how are you doing?  The more removed the person from my department the more 
I would go out of my way to talk to them.  Start asking difficult questions at the all staff forums.  Always threw in doubts in meetings with non-tech people.&lt;p&gt;I asked for a special chair for my back.  Started challenging our processes.&lt;p&gt;Funny thing happened.  People started to see me as an important person.. an expert.  I started to work from home again slowly.. then never came back.  A year later others were encouraged to wfh because of office space concerns.&lt;p&gt;Get in there and make sure they regret pulling you back.  Show your face everywhere.  Make your voice heard.  Take on all issues and then drop them.</text></item><item><author>g051051</author><text>I was full-time WFH for 6 wonderful years.  I was happy, my productivity was off the charts, I was saving tons of money because I didn&amp;#x27;t have to spend it on my car and clothes, I had extra time that I wasn&amp;#x27;t wasting on my commute, etc.&lt;p&gt;Then, we had a big shake-up.  A bunch of senior people left, and new &amp;quot;leadership&amp;quot; came in to &amp;quot;transform&amp;quot; our workplace.  All WFH was cancelled in our division (in spite of still being officially encouraged by corporate policy).  The big boss said &amp;quot;a 15 minute fact-to-face is better than a multi-day email chain&amp;quot;.  My response to that is &amp;quot;What about the other 99.9% of my work time, when I don&amp;#x27;t need to interact with anyone?&amp;quot;  Sigh.&lt;p&gt;Since I had left the office, they had redone everything to be open plan, low walls, brighter lights, white noise over the speakers, etc.  Contractors are packed like sardines, the noise is insane.  We&amp;#x27;re also &amp;quot;Agile&amp;quot; now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not very happy anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dls2016</author><text>This is straight out of the CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual, see Section 4.11 &lt;i&gt;General Interference with Organizations and Production&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cia.gov&amp;#x2F;news-information&amp;#x2F;featured-story-archive&amp;#x2F;2012-featured-story-archive&amp;#x2F;CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cia.gov&amp;#x2F;news-information&amp;#x2F;featured-story-archive&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Re: a special chair for your back... &amp;quot;Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don&amp;#x27;t get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>People love working remotely</title><url>https://usefyi.com/remote-work-report/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolco</author><text>Happened to me.  What I did was go into the office and constantly talk to the vp&amp;#x27;s and ceo.  Not about anything important really boring weather&amp;#x2F;how are you doing?  The more removed the person from my department the more 
I would go out of my way to talk to them.  Start asking difficult questions at the all staff forums.  Always threw in doubts in meetings with non-tech people.&lt;p&gt;I asked for a special chair for my back.  Started challenging our processes.&lt;p&gt;Funny thing happened.  People started to see me as an important person.. an expert.  I started to work from home again slowly.. then never came back.  A year later others were encouraged to wfh because of office space concerns.&lt;p&gt;Get in there and make sure they regret pulling you back.  Show your face everywhere.  Make your voice heard.  Take on all issues and then drop them.</text></item><item><author>g051051</author><text>I was full-time WFH for 6 wonderful years.  I was happy, my productivity was off the charts, I was saving tons of money because I didn&amp;#x27;t have to spend it on my car and clothes, I had extra time that I wasn&amp;#x27;t wasting on my commute, etc.&lt;p&gt;Then, we had a big shake-up.  A bunch of senior people left, and new &amp;quot;leadership&amp;quot; came in to &amp;quot;transform&amp;quot; our workplace.  All WFH was cancelled in our division (in spite of still being officially encouraged by corporate policy).  The big boss said &amp;quot;a 15 minute fact-to-face is better than a multi-day email chain&amp;quot;.  My response to that is &amp;quot;What about the other 99.9% of my work time, when I don&amp;#x27;t need to interact with anyone?&amp;quot;  Sigh.&lt;p&gt;Since I had left the office, they had redone everything to be open plan, low walls, brighter lights, white noise over the speakers, etc.  Contractors are packed like sardines, the noise is insane.  We&amp;#x27;re also &amp;quot;Agile&amp;quot; now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not very happy anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chad_strategic</author><text>Well played!&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &amp;quot;What we do in the shadows&amp;quot; this is called an energy vampire. (you suck out other energy) Also a great show.</text></comment>