alt Hacker NewsRemote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
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This seems obvious and predictable. of course people with flexibility, comfort, privacy, and convenience are better off than people forced into a grueling commute, a sick office, an exposed cubicle and toxic office politics
loving my hybrid life; 2 days a week in office, working outdoors, 3 days at home.
Of course. When I went remote, I could work from Miami during the winter, and escape the NYC cold months. Going for a swim to your buildings roof pool after done with the day, was the best feeling ever.
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Of course I am going to score higher in the well being department. :)
I go to work to attend video calls in office and remain quiet and working under supervision the rest of the time. I don't see the people I work with in real life. Unfortunately, as an extrovert, this is still preferable to working from home. I'm not white so I'm not really allowed to exist in public so the benefits of remote work doesn't apply to me.
In the same vein, the office is now high-pressure because of economic anxiety. It's one thing to hear about someone getting fired who was only ever a head on a screen versus someone getting fired that you knew in person. The current US administration has been hostile to the background of many of my respected colleagues and this creates fear in the office. It also creates anti-competitive incentives.
Additionally, The University of Colorado Boulder profits from online degrees and this link was more a marketing tactic than an academic piece. I think fully remote work works for some, and not for others. Even still, an online program may be the best way to find out.
> at a large healthcare organization
Isn't there kind of an inherit bias here where on-site healthcare workers would have vastly different job requirements than remote workers?
From what I saw most people who "like" going to office are those suffering from domestic violence, having young children and wanting "time off" from parenting and in case of managers, the feeling of power over other human beings is not the same over Teams. Then you have narcissists and peeps/pervs who enjoy being in the middle of "action" and finally people who don't have any friends who hope they find them at a workplace. If you feel the need to go to office, book appointment with a therapist. Maybe you have an unresolved issue.
i remote work for 3e different companies that dont know im working 3 employers
i feel an immense sense of security
The sample is not high quality, but the conclusion is pretty obvious. No thinking person can doubt that improving work/life balance, flexible hours, sleeping more, commuting less and comfy pants is going to lead to any other outcome.
been remote for quite a while. and i love it. but i've got some friends who absolutely hate it, and really struggled with remote working during covid.
so. works for many people, but not for others
Remote only if done right, otherwise nope. i have seen many “remote” but in reality they dictate other measures rendering it worse than in person, like 6hrs a day of xyz time zone to be present, others even want to have an open camera in these hours, others have other means of surveillance to track your location or time spent on the device. If the remote job isn’t asynchronous, minimal meetings, and only the outcome is required from you, it’s not remote and would rather go to the office so this scum employer pay hefty rent instead.
I have also noticed some are trying to portray remote as “woke”, I don’t even know the relationship between both
Clearly easier for you, me, or anyone else to delude ourselves into thinking our tech or jobs are harmless. God knows I prefer and feel happier at a WFH job, but how is this different or better for us than filter bubbles, aside from the obvious perks that are nice? How comfortable should work be?
Good work environment >> Remote work >>>> bad work environment.
However most companies who insist on full RTO are often the latter but claim they are the former.
This seems hard to prove a direct causal link.
Remote employees are also in demand enough to negotiate / find a role with remote work. They probably then are experienced, senior, and better compensated than their peers.
It could be that the underlying cause is being more in-demand in a position to negotiate remote work, not remote work by itself.
Where am I wrong?
HNs just like: now that I have the most highly sort after perk that almost no other job has I feel lonely :( wahhhh, wahhhh. Declares "remote work isn't what it's cracked up to be" while they sit on their golden thrones. Poor HNers.