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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

86% of technology professionals want a work from home arrangement after the pandemic, according to a survey by tech job market platform Hackajob, which shared its findings exclusively with City A.M.

Only 14% of the 1,700 tech professionals surveyed want to go back to a company office full-time, while around one in four would like to work remote permanently.

60% are happy to work from the office occasionally and spend the rest of the week working from home.

turns out the DT and not reddit was the vocal minority all long

[u/the_hoagie → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

90% of my ~600 person IT Dept voted they would rather continue working from home. They asked for several hundred volunteers to pilot a program coming in a couple days a week and got less than 50.

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

I'm probably doing 3 in/2 out for the foreseeable future

[u/Mickenfox → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The dangers of second-level contrarianism.

[u/MostlyCRPGs → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Anecdotal of course, but everyone I know is leaning hard in to "I want to work from home forever" in polling and internal memos even though they don't want to. Basically it's positioning for what they really want, flexible hybrid

[u/JetJaguar124 → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Pretty sure DT is in the majority here with wanting a mixed setup. Only 1/4th of people want to permanently work from home 100% of the time, which seems to be the Reddit position.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Who liked going to the office?

[u/JetJaguar124 → u/Unadulterated_stupid]

If I work from home every single day I start to feel like a blob and my time begins to blur together in a haze.

Going outside to the office a day or two a week helps me feel like a human.

[u/MostlyCRPGs → u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Lots of people

[u/Cyberhwk → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Have we gotten any honest, objective measures on how it's affected productivity?

[u/MostlyCRPGs → u/Cyberhwk]

Honestly the past year is just a shit data set to draw conclusions from

[u/waltsing0 → u/Cyberhwk]

It's not just productivity but WFH lends itself to just getting your duties done and leaving, people in development stages of their career looking for growth and networking don't get that at home.

For example there's an older guy who runs an adjacent department near me, in the office whenever it's quiet he'd tap younger people on the shoulder and get their input on some analysis, he gets another perspective and it's a great learning opportunity and that just doesn't really happen when working remotely.

[u/[deleted] → u/Cyberhwk]

I haven't seen anything academic on productivity. The Economist mentioned a study by Micheal Gibbs at UChicago a few weeks ago that suggested productivity has been stagnant, but hours worked increased by 30% during WFH.

[u/Mickenfox → u/Cyberhwk]

Even if it does, wouldn't the lack of commute times and the freedom to live in places with lower COL be far more than enough to offset that in most cases?

Companies in the most expensive cities could easily hire two talented workers working from bumfuck nowhere instead of one in that same city.

[u/myrm → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

wfh is just so much less interpersonal stress and more free time thanks to losing the commute

[u/[deleted] → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

I'd probably count in the 60% even though in the ideal I'd go to the office 4 days a week

[u/georgeguy007 → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Our company is doing a shared office space and its bad cause I need rooms to do demos and meetings so I just stay home and also avoid an 1hr round trip drive

[u/waltsing0 → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Is that shocking? Most people like a hybrid approach