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DanC78

DanC78

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Im in the office all day working. Our world wide president is in town for s 30 minute town hall, thats why I was asked to be here. My direct uppers asked we work here all day because of this and not just pile in for the town hall, which makes sense.

Typically I work from home or on the road. I will come in to the office If there are internal meetings, which is okay because we'll do what's needed and then haul ass.

Any how, stuck here all day...it's misery. I could never go back to working like this, holy crap is it awful.

Any of you knuckle heads in an office all day, or has everything pretty much shifted to a remote workforce.
 
Current position, I'm in the office for most of the day since the Dept of Ins requires a licensed escrow officer on site at all times. The folks I manage all work from home.

New position starting in two weeks, I'll probably work from the office a day or two a week after I get my replacement trained.
 
I left to start my own business a year and a half ago, was so excited to get out of the office.
Ironically, now that I'm on my own, I am looking to get office space for 2/3 days per week.
 
Once my kids get older I might be looking to get out of house. As of now it's still fairly peaceful.
 
The teaching I do is in an office but I am not stuck there all day long. Everywhere else is a stage or pit.
 
Bill From Tampa said:
The teaching I do is in an office but I am not stuck there all day long. Everywhere else is a stage or pit.
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Home or on the road. Thankfully I don't ever have to waste time doing the commute.
 
ggmike1992 said:
Hard to telecommute when you work in a prison. I'm certainly not bringing my work home with me. That's for damn sure.
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If the prisoners all stayed locked in their cells 24x7, you could work from wherever you wanted. Stop letting them wander about to showers and meals and such, and reclaim your independence!!
 
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Work from home mostly. Grass is always greener, I do now miss an office environment with folks to help and socialize with....
 
There was a recent WSJ article that discussed companies were starting to require employees to come to the office because at-home productivity was low. I'm in the office unless there is something that requires me to be away (depositions, trial, etc.). I usually work at home on the weekends--with a weekend office visit at least once a month. We have old skool lawyers that are in their office 7 days a week - that's rough.
 
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I work at home full time. We used to have an office in Duluth, but they closed that down a few years ago. My boss is located in Pennsylvania. I like the freedom of working at home and not having to drive in Atlanta traffic.

In this day ad age, there is no reason to keep people from telecommuting if their jobs do not require them to be in an office. I actually think I am more productive working at home. I'll often be online early working before taking small breaks, running a couple errands, etc. When I worked in an office, once I left, I was usually gone and checked out. If something important comes up now after hours, I have no issues hopping online real quick to take care of it.
 
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I voluntarily go to the office once every 2 weeks to see my teams F2F and go to lunch. I am the only one who makes the effort of my 3 peers. After about 5 hours I am definitely ready to leave the office.
 
I've been a "remote" employee for nearly 14 years now. As technology has improved, so has my work day.

I haven't been down to our office in NC for almost a year and a half, although if I had my way, I would go down there quarterly, at least. I see my team at several conferences each year, so that helps.
 
I work in an office most of the time, but I often travel to other buildings in town to conduct business and sometimes throughout the state. That said, with a cell phone having been issued to me by my employer, I work wherever, whenever.
 
I am in the office full time, unless I don't want to drive in to work in the snow. I've been kicking around the idea of trying to stay on and work remotely when I move. Not sure how it would fork for me, my team or the organization.
 
I work almost exclusively in my office. Wouldn't want it any other way.
 
I'm just now about to leave. I have a few more items I'd like to take care of before I leave, but I won't make it home 7pm as is; if I were home I'd knock them out and be done with it.

Working at home is more productive....for me at least.

I also lost a little over an hour driving into work this morning. That time is usually spent with the family (I'll make breakfast for 2 year old and hold baby for a bit), but still wasted time nonetheless.
 
DanC78 said:
Im in the office all day working. Our world wide president is in town for s 30 minute town hall, thats why I was asked to be here. My direct uppers asked we work here all day because of this and not just pile in for the town hall, which makes sense.

Typically I work from home or on the road. I will come in to the office If there are internal meetings, which is okay because we'll do what's needed and then haul ass.

Any how, stuck here all day...it's misery. I could never go back to working like this, holy crap is it awful.

Any of you knuckle heads in an office all day, or has everything pretty much shifted to a remote workforce.
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Not currently or in the past 6-8 years since I left working for the Department of Health. But I am going to start working 4 days a week at my Panama City facility in about 1.5 months until I feel it's stable and running well and I hire my own replacement.
 
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I usually work remotely about 90% of the time but am currently halfway through a 16 week temporary assignment where someone made the mistake of making me the boss so i have to go in to the office everyday. it's not bad since i know it's temporary but it's not something i want to go back to permanently.
 
I like having an office to work in every day. I get that commuting sucks but I do take public transit daily and that helps a lot.

Individual contributors work from home two days a week. I think that is great for them. I'm a manger and work from the office most of the time.

On the flip side to Dan I guess this is why I'm not in sales. I would hate to have to travel on a regular basis or stay in hotels. I'm sure there are folks that would go nuts with my job (IT Manager).... but I do enjoy it.
 
I've been working at home for a year and a half now. They are talking about getting us a new local office and want me to commit to going in full time again. Most I can see me doing is 3 days a week. Office life sucks.
 
I work at my clients' offices, or work from home. I probably travel 40 weeks per year. On weeks I travel, I work Monday through Thursday.
 
I joined a new firm last year. I work from home probably 60-75% of the days and travel or in our Atlanta office the rest of the days. Love it. Would not want to go back to an office.
 
In the office all day, every day. I would get zero done if I wasn't...
 
Technically I have an office in 3-4 places and the 1 place I am actually assigned to on paper I have never been to and don't even know the address of. I travel roughly 45 weeks a year and there was 1 stretch where I was home for 8 hours in 3 weeks. The past 2 weeks I have been home which is an anomaly and only happened because of Irma. When I do travel to places I have an office/desk I am rarely in the building; in part because my work is with people and they aren't in the office and in part because all but 1 building I have an office in doesn't allow cell phones or my work computer, so there is very little I can do in the building other than check various email accounts or go to the Intern accounts I have.
 
Work in the office.... Beer in the fridge and it's about as laid back as home.
 
DanC78 said:
I'm just now about to leave. I have a few more items I'd like to take care of before I leave, but I won't make it home 7pm as is; if I were home I'd knock them out and be done with it.

Working at home is more productive....for me at least.

I also lost a little over an hour driving into work this morning. That time is usually spent with the family (I'll make breakfast for 2 year old and hold baby for a bit), but still wasted time nonetheless.
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Yeah, if I had a long commute I'd probably feel differently - but my commute is about 1/2 mile, down an oak tree lined, brick street. It takes me about 1 minute, maybe 75 seconds if my neighbor beats me to the stop sign & I have to come to a complete stop instead of rolling through.
 
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Yeah, if I had a long commute I'd probably feel differently - but my commute is about 1/2 mile, down an oak tree lined, brick street. It takes me about 1 minute, maybe 75 seconds if my neighbor beats me to the stop sign & I have to come to a complete stop instead of rolling through.
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Yeah, that is no different than working from home. Actually, your situation is better than working from home!
 
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