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Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)

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72 points jakey_bakey | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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xxxtemp ◴[22 Oct 24 18:03 UTC] No.41916935[source]▶
I feel crazy sometimes, because I'm the exact opposite. WFH has been a disaster for me. I just joined a team with a hybrid schedule (3 days in the office). I'm there every day, but it's pretty dead on the other 2 days. If they close the office and go remote-only I will quit on the spot.
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codr7 ◴[22 Oct 24 18:07 UTC] No.41916965[source]▶
Having the option is the point, people are different.
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xxxtemp ◴[22 Oct 24 18:11 UTC] No.41917025[source]▶
I get that point of view, but for me, being alone in an empty office isn't much better than being alone at home. I'm not trying to force people to be in the office, I just want to find a team where people WANT to be there. It seems very hard to find, but it's also hard to believe I'm the only one in the world who wants to be part of something like that.
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seanmcdirmid ◴[22 Oct 24 18:20 UTC] No.41917124[source]▶
There was a point in my life where I craved working in the office also and seeing people who also wanted to be there. And now I can't imagine going back to one.

I miss nice offices though. Before the whole let's stack people side by side on desks, rather than give them some nicer spaces with lots of room for deep thought. When I was working for HARC, we had a nice former industrial space near UCLA. I totally could go for that, but when the only way to get something semi-nice and private is to work at home, well, that is going to bias people.

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codr7 ◴[22 Oct 24 20:29 UTC] No.41918381[source]▶
This touches on the core of the problem.

The only thing that changed is you can no longer force people to the same degree.

One alternative would be to design offices that people like to work in.

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1. seanmcdirmid ◴[22 Oct 24 23:00 UTC] No.41919634[source]▶
Yes, studies show people are more likely to want to come into the office if they have a nice office to come into. But what's the point of paying say half a million/year for an engineer if you also have to give them a nice space to be productive in?

Anyways, it isn't a mystery why people want to work at home these days, and they don't really need to be in the office anyways considering how hard it is to get conference rooms to VC all the time with your partners across the country or world.