[pro14]

> The collaborative energy of hundreds of tightly-packed people trying to focus in different things together is amazing.

Imagine this. You are trying to write a Python script to produce another report for your manager. You can sit anywhere in the amazing open office. You accidentally sit next to the Anti-Money Laundering team, and have to listen to that.

The next day you choose a different floor. Your manager shows up wearing a mask and says she has a flu. The rest of the day, you listen to small talk, while trying to focus on implementing the report.

Whenever you walk to the coffee machine, people stare at you and wonder who you're sleeping with.

Finally, you revolt and refuse to come in to the office. Then you don't have a job.

[77pt77]

But how is your manager going to get the immense health benefits he gets from constantly making your life hell?

Be considerate of his feelings, you selfish child.

[dagw]

The rest of the day, you listen to small talk

The office where I work we have a whole section of one floor that is strictly no talking and phones must be on mute. If you want silence you can sit there. I cannot imagine that we are the only company that has come up with this idea.

That being said, I still work from home when I feel like it.

[siva7]

But what's the point of being at the office? I can get the same at home

[dagw]

I can get the same at home

Personally I find home more distracting than the office. The office is a clean work space with a desk with only my work computer and work stuff and everybody around me is also working.

Home has chores and errands and 'fun' and all kinds of other Not Work stuff to tempt me away from working. Plus once my kids come home from school, quiet concentration time is effectively over.

But as I said, I'm not advocating for mandatory return to office, and I do work at home 1-2 days a week.

[tivert]

> Home has chores and errands and 'fun' and all kinds of other Not Work stuff to tempt me away from working. Plus once my kids come home from school, quiet concentration time is effectively over.

It's funny how serving one's employer has become the highest duty.

Work not done? After-hours issue? Then work overtime. Kids are home? Go to the office to avoid being distracted from work.

[dagw]

Or, I go to the office, focus for 6 hours uninterrupted, get done what needs to be done, and then go home and not think about work at all for the rest of the day.

[sixothree]

After a day of work at the office I would never have left the kitchen as dirty as a day of work from home.

[Pooge]

> I cannot imagine that we are the only company that has come up with this idea.

In a company I used to work for, 2 floors were (completely) unoccupied but some were insufferable. 2 floors worth tens of thousands of dollars monthly were just completely unused whatsoever.

[siva7]

I can top that with 11 floors in one building by one company unused.