In all seriousness, at home I’ve set up two designated workspaces with a large external monitor in each. One is also used as a den, and the other is a nook in my bedroom, but during the workday i have my choice of two comfortable private offices, depending on which view i prefer, the garden or the bird feeder. If i don’t need the big screen, i can also work at the kitchen table while brewing my tea, or lounge on a couch.
At the office i need to book a shared workspace for the day, and while the spaces are functional enough, i need to wear headphones if i want to talk to anyone who isn’t right next to me. And i find headphones a lot more uncomfortable than masks. I had a lot of ear infections as a kid, and really don’t like stuff in my ear. I also don’t like the “cut off” feeling of over-ear headphones. Because the spaces are shared, i need to spend time setting it up each day. I have to listen to my coworkers’ phone calls and other stuff. I can’t listen to music (unless I’m willing to wear headphones, and it’s not worth it to me.) Snack options are expensive and unhealthy.
If i had a private office at work, i might not dread going back so much. But i don’t.
My favorite lunch places are still there. I’ve been in the office a couple of times because i needed to be in the neighborhood for other reasons, and i did enjoy my overpriced and unhealthy lunch.
I’m glad I was living in the suburbs during the pandemic. It sure made life a lot less stressful being able to get outside and walk the neighborhood streets. I can’t imagine living in Manhattan high-rise during the pandemic.
I have a private office at work. It’s in a nice suburban office park with lots of trees and undeveloped space. I prefer working from home. But I do like going into the office and collaborating with co-workers face to face, it’s much better than in a Zoom meeting.
I’d feel much better about going back to the office if i had an office to go back to.
The funny thing is that i had a nice office in my first, entry-level actuarial job. My work space has basically gone downhill ever since. Styles change.
Me, too. Which is why I’m not looking forward to returning to the office. I’m honestly much more comfortable wearing a mask than headphones, and for that matter, I find that other people in headphones are much less “socially available” than other people wearing masks. I find that the upper face is pretty expressive. Whereas people with headphones may as well be in another room.
Um, I have one of those. Specifically, I have the wired version of the 750 model. I used to use it when I had my own office. I can’t use it in a cubical because it would drive all my co-workers nuts.
At home I don’t need it, because it turns out the built-in audio of my laptop is sufficient for one person facing the laptop.
I’m as conservative as makes logical sense. I won’t start mindlessly using dumb talking points. I won’t hate the government, even though it’s necessary for the functioning of a modern country. I won’t subscribe to Christian Nationalism that has seemed to have taken over the GOP. Honestly, it would be nice if a reasonable conservative party existed in this country with a reasonable oppositional liberal party. For now, I will have to live with the Democrats trying to be both at the same time because the GOP is full of lunatics. Hell, last night I watched one of these crazies call for the assassination of a foreign head of state on national television.
