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MTK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I might get roasted for this, but as a person who likes to work from home, I did exactly this with a friend on some holidays that both of us didn’t feel the need to take PTO on (we did get to take this PTO later) and it was a blast, having a huge office just for us was really fun.

But I understand that I’m in a privileged position to make this choice and that it changes the context.

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leisesprecher@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think this video gets flak, because (in your scenario) not you and your coworker made a video about having fun, but your boss made you come to the otherwise empty office to act like you’re having fun and use that as advertisement.

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DillyDaily@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
People’s work preferences are their own, these guys are having fun, good for them.

I always maintained I can’t work from home, I was forced to teach via zoom during lock downs and even now my job is hybrid, I teach in person in a shared classroom but I don’t have an office, I do all my prep and notes from home. Only I don’t. My productivity genuinely dropped when I lost my office.

Then I house sat for a friend who had a home office and I realised I can work from home, just not my home, because it’s not set up for work and my head space in my home can’t flip to that “productive mode”.

So now I go to the local library, which is better than my house but still not as good as an office because it’s still distracting.

But it depends on the type of work, I prefer lesson planning alone in quiet peace, I get so much done, but when we’re developing community events I love being in our open staff room with laptops out, some of us sitting on the floor, others standing and just shooting ideas around, we always get so much done.

But I’ve worked in other centres where that level of collaboration and communication wasn’t there - we didn’t have the right mix of personality types, and a workplace like my current staffroom would be chaos and nothing would get done.

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