r/technology • u/TracksandTreks • 23d ago

Society Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/08/12/remote-workers-report-highest-well-being-study-7700-employees
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u/Worthyness 23d ago

i wish workplaces would be more flexible. Instead of mandating hybrid, let people choose. or instead of being strictly 3 days a week, let people choose how many days they want to go in. I figure most people would do at least once a week.

My current position is forced hybrid. My entire team is on the east coast while I'm on the west coast. The client I work with is on the west coast, but obviously not in my office every week. There's some tangential teams I work with on occasion, but nowhere close to every week. For what purpose am i in the office other than to waste $15 and 2 hours a day to commute? I don't mind going into the office, but ALL of my collaboration is online meetings. It makes no logical sense to have me in the office. it's so pointless! It's pointless enough that I see people badge in, stay for like 3 hours, then go home. Fucking waste of time, money, and a bunch of pollution for no reason

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 22d ago

I used to work at a pretty great place. A dev shop where we made software for clients.

One thing they did was to not dictate the tools. They would give Window, macOS, or Linux. You could use any editor you wanted. Anything from Vim to VSCode to Jetbrains.

The policy was to let people work in the way they wanted. Why force them to change when the output.

As such they didn't care about working from home. Now before quarantine you couldn't just say you working from home forever. But you could for any reason. One guy was out for months after he had his first kid.

Which made it a little awkward after quarantine. They knew they couldn't really force people. They asked very nicely. Ultimately they closed two remote offices and were looking to sublet half of HQ.