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There are a lot of news articles about "back to the office", but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let's provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible.

I would like my work computer to do Windows updates lightning quick in the office. It currently takes weeks, in or out of the office. Stopping in for a day makes no difference, so there is no point. Now, if there was a point, I would go in.

What would get you in the office?

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[โ€“] DrMango@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Free or affordable, clean, safe public transit that takes me no more than 20 minutes from the time I set foot out my front door to setting foot in the office, and a team/company that doesn't care if I decide to work the day remotely for any reason whatsoever. I also like the other guy's comment about the workplace being a nice, inviting place to be since my cube is barren and probably 20+ years old.

Also the rest of y'all need to stay home when you get sick instead of bringing that shit into the office.

[โ€“] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Nothing pisses me off more than hearing some dude hacking up his lungs just across the hallway.

I'll call in sick a few days later just because, and say there must be something going around. At least it will get me a few days away from the Sickies so I can potentially avoid getting it.

[โ€“] iByteABit@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't believe it's been so many years and there still aren't any laws regarding working in the office while sick. For office jobs it just makes zero sense, in this age they can all easily work from home more or less as seen during covid, isn't worth it not to have a plague of common colds every damn winter?

For real, I have not gotten sick since I started working from home. I did get COVID once going to a company sponsored event with 1000 people, but I call that "going into the office". Other than that, it's been pretty nice being healthy every day

[โ€“] MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Some cubicle farms are just sad. Coffee stains from 20 years ago, along with old fart smells.

I love staying at home when I am "too sick for the commute, but not so sick to answer a couple emails."

[โ€“] theragu40@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Careful what you wish for regarding cubicles. I would kill for a cubicle in our office. When companies implement these modern collaboration space ideas, it's all about hotel desks, movable workstations, short or no dividers and open air spaces.

Having a cubicle to myself was fucking awesome. Now there is no privacy, no space to call my own, no place to simply have a phone conversation without everyone within 50 feet of me hearing every word.