When I started my career in Chicago, I was going into an office 5 days a week. After about 8 years I started going in for only 5-6 hours a day. Felt like a relief.

Once the pandemic hit, I went fully remote. 2020 to 2025. I didn't have a lot of work and for a couple years there I was pretty much retired.

Last year I joined a company where it was fully remote and required webcams for meetings. I could make my own start/end time. In the end I left the company after 2 months because it felt like torture. I realized I was waking up at 7:30, sitting at my desk by 8:00, having a quick 30 minute lunch, and clocking out at 4:30. From then I would get to the gym by 5:15, get home by 6:30, finish showering and eating dinner by 8:00, and then the rest of the day was mine. What I realized was that had I done this for 5 years, I would've spent 12 hours a day completely ALONE. Like, solitary confinement.

So after leaving that company I moved back to Chicago to a job with a hybrid role. Monday/Friday are at home, and in between is in the office. It feels nice working in a nice office in a highrise building with fun coworkers, but there are days where I look out the window and I ask myself is this it? Is this the rest of my life?

And then I ask myself if I were married, would I still want to come into work, or just work remotely.. because the prospect of being in a major city forever isn't what I want.

Thoughts?

Didn’t read a word, lol at working.

Key is to remember that when you poop in the office toilet you’re leaving part of yourself there. That’s alpha.

but you posted more than a word, thanks for cucking yourself in my thread, phaggot.

I am at home M/F and in the office T/W/Th

no real difference in production, but I do enjoy being in the office around other people.

Humans (at least me) were meant to be social

I started hybrid but went full wfh. If I go into the office nothing changes, just the inconvenience of going in. All meetings happen on teams anyway.

I simply despise my job whether it's done here or there

I make 160K/yr as a finance manager WFH and barely do any work. I feel kind of guilty about it.

Hybrid. Work from home 3 days a week is ideal. But I like coming in the office a few times a week to keep up appearances, to socialize with colleagues, and to just get out of the house with business attire on

(with my job, I used to get 2 WFH days a week. Now I get just one. I wish I still had 2 per week)

If you have friends, GF/wife, family around, social life etc then I think full WFH is the best because you can take care of chores etc while working and talk to your friends and stuff throughout the day as you work.

office/ hybrid might be best for you since you don't have any friends/GF/ social life so at least you can get some sort of social contact at work. Even if that's the lowest form of human interaction it's better than nothing for someone in your situation.

Do they offer any perks at the office like free lunch if you come in or take you guys out to happy hour after?

I despise my job either way but much less when WFH. I prefer full remote.