People send a variety of releases speculating about the future of working from home. Will we return to offices? Will we split time? What will offices look like? However, here is information that is like an online survey of how actual people think about all this working from home when they have been used to an office.
On Blind, the largest anonymous professional community with 4M users from big tech, unicorns, and startups, a Microsoft employee asked, “If you’re tired of WFH, why do you want to be back in the office?”
Here are the things professionals miss the most about the in person office
- Social aspects- missing friends (34%)
- The food (19%)
- Career Growth (18%)
- Mentorship opportunities (13%)
- Spouse/ partners getting on nerves (9%)
- Dating prospects (7%)
More key learnings:
- 26% of Twitter professionals miss the food
- 46% of Cisco professionals miss the social aspects
- 29% of Visa professionals miss the career growth
- ¼ of Snap professionals miss mentorship opportunities
- 17% of Oracle professionals’ spouses are getting on their nerves
- 15% of Lyft professionals miss the dating prospects
You can see the raw data here.
An Intuit professional shared, “I miss my office because –
- I miss my team
- Whiteboard design sessions
- Happy hours
- Mentor/mentee side of things
- Optimism & excitement.
Feels like we are in a dark tunnel.On the plus side, I am enjoying great time with my family & especially kids. I am getting to know & appreciate them more”
An engineer at Google shared “I hate WFH because I don’t like to do work at home. I miss being able to go to the office, put in a day’s work, and then leave. Separation of domains.”
The office might look different when we all go back to work, but one thing is certain: It isn’t going away.
I shared some of these with my wife. She was amused by the spouse getting on their nerves comment. I’ve had a home office for 30 years, although I also had an office at “work” for 23 of those. When she retired as a teacher, we had to share the home part of the home office. The saving grace has been my travel schedule. However, my last trip for business was the second week of February. We’re still trying to be civil <smile/>.
