I was just offered a fully remote position as an intake specialist and I'm getting a little intimidated by the potential transition, because I'm so accustomed to working in an office. I still have a week to give them a "yes" or "no".

The pros with this for me would be:

1. Saving on gas

2. Saving on buying lunch

3. Not having to be micro-managed or have pressure on me by getting multiple last minute projects thrown at me that are expected to be completed the same day.

4. Always pajama time

5. This job would only bring me an additional $3/hr from what I'm making now, but if I'm saving in other ways I guess it adds up. Health insurance is also fully covered.

How did you guys do when you transitioned? Do you miss working in an office? What are the pros and cons for you working from home ?

My home office is on the front of my house so I’m looking out my window at their equipment. I cannot think, the noise cancelling headphones have nothing on tree trimmers. Sigh, I’m so busy and too unorganized to pack up and go to the work-share place. Happy Monday 🙄

My monitor mounts don’t allow height adjustment, so my screens are too low for proper neck and head posture. The only way to fix this is by raising my whole desk, but then my arms aren’t at a 90° angle, which messes up my ergonomics.

I’m stuck between two options: 1. Ditch the mounts and get universal monitor stands to raise the screens. 2. Get a keyboard tray so I can keep my arms at the right height without compromising my neck posture.

Has anyone dealt with this issue? What worked best for you?

Been working on Zoom for quite some time but I have a new home office. and the lighting is terrible for zoom calls. I look terrible on the camera. I sit at a desk with french doors on the left and 2 windows on the right. The windows have wood blinds that I normally keep closed. If I open them I am awash with light from the right and nothing on the left. I also have torch style lamp behind me on the right. If.I turn on that light the camera tends to adjust its exposure based on that it thinks its pointed at the sun and I again look terrible. I have a couple of lume cubes but am having issues figuring out what makes sense for placement.

I know from reading through this sub that sometimes we get asked by clients if we are WFH.

But what about clients asking if you're full time? I have had several clients ask me this - I can only assume it's because I WFH. My guess is that people assume my company must not have the ability to lease an office and a local team, so surely they aren't able to pay a full time salary? I find it an odd question that makes me a little uncomfortable. As if they're questioning my quality of work, commitment, or capacity. I also find it nosy.

Have you every been asked this? How did it make you feel? How did you respond?

I've been WFH for the last few years behind three computer screens and always had issues with tired/fatigued eyes until learning about the 20/20/20 rule, but I had a hard time following it until I recently got a cheap interval timer (marketed for gym rats), which I start every morning when I sit at my desk and it's been life-changing.

So now I've been adding more things to do (and changed my interval timer to 22min to give me the extra time to do them) which I highly recommend. Firstly, when the timer beeps I immediately grab my water and take several big gulps before getting out of my chair and going to the window to look outside for 20 seconds. I found that I've probably been dehydrated more than I realized but now that I do that I've seen huge improvements to my overall wellness.

It depends on how busy I am, I figured since I'm already out of my chair, it wouldn't hurt to do a set of exercises, so now the routine is every 20 min, I pound some water, reset my eyes, and knock out some sort of exercise before sitting back down. I even bought a card desk of calisthenics exercises that I shuffle and just flip over one at a time to pick my exercise so it's just random.

If I'm busy, I may skip the exercise, but never the water and eye reset. I'm like Pavlov's dog when the timer beeps, I get thirsty, lol. Also found that the day seems to go by faster since getting the timer.

Is anyone else doing this? What are your recommendations to add to this kind of routine?

I feel like this is overlooked in the RTO argument. I WFH from 2022-2024. I almost went the entire year without getting sick, until I was laid off last summer and was forced to get a job with 3 days in office. It’s only February and I’ve managed to get sick twice! First it was a horrible week-long sinus infection, and now I have a sore throat and the chills.

Every week it’s someone hacking and coughing up a lung at their desks, instead of staying home. Then people like me end up catching whatever they have.

I don’t have any children and I don’t live with a partner. I’m convinced i’m catching germs I wasn’t previously exposed to while being in the office 3x a week. I’m considered a fairly healthy young adult, so imagine how this affects the immunocompromised and disabled folks.

Wondering if anyone has done this and can share their experience.

I've been working from home since before covid, it's been about 8-9 years at this point. I've worked in the same field my entire career (software engineering/technical management) and I think I've just slowly become unable to separate my mental state of being between work and ...not work over time. Whether I'm in the kitchen or the bedroom or the office (the dedicated room in my home that is literally only used as an office) or den or living room etc, it all feels like I'm not quite at home anymore. It's affected my sleep and general state of unwinding and trying to relax. Slowly but surely over the years it's become a bigger and bigger issue.

Now considering renting/purchasing a second small home or private office space in an office park. Looking for advice from people that have done this and anything to look out for. Thanks <3

Not looking for work - I'm interested in hearing what you all do to be able to work from home?

• Do you work for a company?
• Are you self employed?

Currently looking for a change, working back at an 8-5 just isn't doing it for me. Sitting here blue-skying ideas on what I could do remotely, like basic bookkeeping or admin tasks for other people, probably smaller businesses that don't have the resource to do themselves or justify employing someone for. I currently work in an admin role which I enjoy, but I do not enjoy being in an office 5 days a week from 8 to 5.

So, what do you do for work?

(Feel free to point me to a more suitable reddit sub if this isn't the one)

Sup folks! So, might be a common theme from what I've seen but hear me out...

I currently WFH and have a side hustle. So, on my desk I have: Work laptop, personal laptop and gaming PC. I am way too overwhelmed with all of this crap, all these devices are driving me nuts; of course, this is more of a psychological problem but I cannot sit at my desk to study or game because I work all day there.

The good thing is that I could sell my gaming PC and get a Lenovo ThinkCentre for my side hustle, I don't game that much anymore (but still do) nor travel that much anymore (and won't work while traveling anymore) so I'm not sure what to buy or sell... The ThinkCentre is $200, used, plenty for my side hustle. My gaming PC is powerful, but very big and my laptop is awesome. Should I just sell my gaming PC and idk just use my laptop for my stuff? How do you guys cope with multiple devices in your home? I can't stand being wasteful.

Thanks!

Because I just discovered that one of the reasons why my government mandates rto is for the sake of the economy. Have their "bustling city" and whatnot.

So, as someone who is adversely affected by commuting I swore to myself that I will never again buy from any shop, restaurant or establishment that benefits from RTO. It's both for my own financial benefit and a gesture of solidarity to those who would have mentally, physically and/or medically benefited from wfh but were denied.

I'm posting it here in the hopes that this will grow as a movement. Frugality is a virtue, not a sin.

As above.

My job has gotten very strict about the mandated/assigned in office work weeks in the last year. They used to allow exemptions and flexibility for remote work, but now they deny pretty much any request to work remotely and not participate in the hybrid schedule.

I am currently working with an employee who has a 10 month old baby. I had noticed she was hard to meet with sometimes, tends to be unavailable for a few hours a day, and she never goes on video. I had thought I heard a baby babbling every time in the background and I guess I was right. She told me she stays home and works while taking care of the baby all day, as well. I’m not sure if her husband is home too, but she told me they have no childcare. She is missing a pretty important 3 day in person project “meet up” because there is no one to watch the baby. I understand childcare is insanely expensive, and I am fully in support of not wanting to spend thousands on daycare a month. But, how can you work remotely and watch a baby full time? This is probably when it’s easiest to watch them (in terms of age? idk), but we are on an insanely busy project and she’s definitely not fully checked in and available like I’d expect. We are direct partners so I have to rely on her for things. I would never say a word, and I already feel like an a-hole for complaining here, but if I run into notable issues collaborating with her, in the back of my mind I will wonder if it’s because she’s distracted at home. Is this even a normal occurrence for WFH?

Side note - more power to this woman for not having to pay for childcare and having a full time job. I am baffled with how strict our work is about hybrid, so I’d love to know how she swings it because I can’t imagine a company signing off on this as a longterm exemption.

I was pregnant during being fully WFH. I absolutely loved the fact that I could work without all the annoying comments and conversations I would have had to have about pregnancy. My office has hundreds of people and before the pandemic, so many people would stop by my desk and talk about random things whether it was welcomed or not.

Once I was driving a motorscooter in Hawaii and crashed after a big truck cut me off. I had to work with a cast on my leg, crutches, and incredible pain. I heard everyone else’s stories and even coworkers telling me that it wasn’t so bad because they know someone who has it worse. These people have no insight into how not to be annoying or disrespectful.

I could have only imagined all the pushy advice, the questions about my body and my future child, and all the unrelated stories about their friends friends friends cousin’s pregnancy.

Now, we are required to do hybrid and I already had the my baby. Many of my co workers say wow I just found out you had a baby and they either want to see pictures, say wow I didn’t know, tell me to have a 2nd child, or tell me stories about themselves or friends they know with children. Dude it’s a reason you don’t know, because we are not friends! But they don’t get it. One guy said he hated working from home because he didn’t get to know I was pregnant. Absolutely deranged.

I put headphones on to keep conversations down but they can’t see the airpods. I have friends who I enjoy but besides those few people, I either have to be rude to these people or embrace the small talk. I typically embrace hell…I mean small talk. Anyway, it was so nice to have a private pregnancy and I am so glad I did!

Long story short:

• I work from home at my apartment complex
• Said apartment complex has a gym that is mostly vacant during the day
• I am sedentary af and NEED to get some form of movement in my day and am so desperate I’m thinking about getting a small, simple treadmill desk to use in my apartment gym. (Cant fit a walking treadmill in my own apartment)
• I am looking for feedback on if there are any treadmill desks out there that are good for quickly taking on and off as the treadmill I will be using is not my own. As well as any potential safety concerns or if there’s any risk of damaging the treadmill. I don’t think there is, but I want to cover all my bases in case I get caught and my apartment manager doesn’t like it lol.

Anyone prefer working from bed all day. Apart from very first office chair i dont find them comfortable to sit on. Would anyone recommend using one of those reclining sofas as office chair?

A lot of the confusion around remote work - and what it means to be a good remote worker - comes from a simple misunderstanding: busyness and productivity are not the same.

In an office, being present and keeping busy can create the illusion of productivity. You’re seen at your desk, jumping into meetings, responding quickly to emails. It looks like you’re working hard.

But remote work doesn’t reward busyness. It rewards actual results.

I had to learn this the hard way. For years, I filled my days with back-to-back meetings, Slack conversations, and checking off endless to-do lists - only to end each day exhausted and feeling behind. No matter how many hours I worked, it never felt like enough.

The shift that changed everything? Learning to prioritize high impact work over constant activity. I started blocking out time for my most important tasks, batching small distractions instead of letting them interrupt me, and defining what success looked like before my day even started.

Now, I get more done in less time, and I end my workdays knowing I actually moved the needle.

So when you read about people working remotely walking their dogs or doing chores during the day, it's not necessarily because they are shirking. It very well might be because it only takes 6 hours a day to produce excellent results when you don't have to waste time looking busy.

Agree or disagree?

It's not entirely gone-- I moved it to my garage. Since WFH, my posture has gotten noticeably worst. I've tried to use my standing desk but having a computer chair nearby made it so much easier to just sit down. I don't have the dedication to stand when my chair is calling me. I figured now that if I want to sit down, I can go take a small break on the living room couch instead. Out of sight, out of mind.

Anyone on the same bandwagon?

One of my first office jobs, I had a small office with a wall that was just windows. It was naturally quite bright. Along with the overhead lights, it was very bright. I would regularly turn the overhead lights off. I get migraines easily and turning off the overhead would help.

The owner, a micromanaging beast, came in one day. I had my lights off, windows open. She puts her hand in my door and turns the light on and makes some ridiculous comment about how it's not professional to have the lights off. We had an another employee who had an adjustable halogen torch lamp and was not allowed to use that.

So here I sit at home, lights off, no migraine, comfortable with my blanket thinking about how much happier I am.

Im currently able to wfh 1 day/week. Thinking about leaving to relocate but the new job is only in person.

Im in engineering (med devices), dont know how common it is for us to be hybrid anyways. And there’s a lack of industry presence in the area I want to relocate to.

I’d love to hear from some others whose companies aren’t forcing RTO. I work fully remote and all the RTO post make me worry.

I know I shouldn’t worry about it. But it’s hard not to when my whole feed is full of it these past few weeks.

The market is trash and I've been looking for some time now and finally have a chance at a Sr. Total Rewards Analyst remote role (important since we have to be onsite 2 days a week soon), in line with career goals, higher pay, and based on interactions it seems like a nice and pleasant place...

However, 2.5 rating on Glassdoor with 300-400 reviews. I think they went through some growing pains or something cuz a lot of reviews had to do with RIFs, trust, constant change, etc.

That's my only hangup so far. I'm currently at a big F50 company so it's definitley scary to leave a 'comfy and stable' job.

Update: thanks all, very helpful. I'm a bit sad cuz it's back to the drawing board and waiting for the right job. It's just dim out there Update 2: lol right when I posted this I got contacted for another opportunity...this time 3.3 rating so it's better.

What cute tops are you wearing for on camera meetings? I usually wear different colored pullovers but want a little fashion makeover to look cute and stylish for on camera meetings. Give me all your suggestions!

Hi all,

Not sure if this is an appropriate question for this sub.
But I was wondering for single people who live alone with no children/pets, how do you manage to make sure to get out everyday?

Sometimes I wake up, exercise in my place, shower, get ready, work, cook dinner, read/relax/work on other necessities, and then go to sleep. I sometimes don't go out for a few days just due to work and life. I feel like it's draining me and not allowing me to explore/decompress as much as I need.

Any suggestions on how to not constantly stay inside?

EDIT: Thank you all for your suggestions! I'm going to try to exercise more outside and find some hobby with new people in the coming weeks

If some sends you a Teams chat asking are you available for a call. Do you (a) immediately call them or (b) type "yes" and wait for them to call you.

I generally do (b), especially if it took me a few minutes to see the chat. But waiting for their callback always seems awkward.

I wasn't sure what is common practice.

Hi all I previously worked hybrid but have just started a new job wfh full time. Would love any advice, tips or anything that may be helpful for someone transitioning! I have adhd so I’m worried I will become a bit agitated having no one to talk to haha

Thanks guys!!!

I work from home for a healthcare facility and just recieved an e-mail that they are assembling a team of experts to review the executive orders regarding cuts to our operations, programs, funding, policies and research. Im honestly really scared about the future of healthcare for millions as well as the job loss that can come from this. Im finding it hard to even focus on doing my job but trying my best to push through. I feel like we all should be a little kinder and check up on one another right now during this stressful time.

I’m Gen X WFH and work with a combination of Gen X and Millennials. Some are WFH and some are hybrid.

I have worked a lot on my email skills as in using less words, shorter sentences, and bullet points or numbers.

Many times in an email I will have two or three questions or need two or three things. So many people lately have only responded to the first question or request and that’s it. Obviously requiring a frustrating follow up email from me.

I’m just at a loss that people can’t read farther than one line or respond to more than one request at a time. I think all our brains are broken.

Is this happening to anyone else or advice on how to format an email to get the whole thing read and answered?

Email is our main form of communication. We use chat for more informal or quick questions.

I'm looking for a KVM switch capable of switching both HDMI and USB-C with power delivery, which would allow me to plug in these two laptops with two cables each.

I already have a KVM switch that is HDMI + USB 3.0; I'd like to upgrade to USB-C so I can forego the power cable to each laptop and increase data bandwidth. I just got a UGreen USB-C KVM and was disappointed with the lack of power delivery. Does this exist for less than $200?

Hello all, as the title states, I am looking for any feedback on the DeerRun Z10 Pro walking pad / treadmill since I am thinking about buying it. At $369 for a maximum 8 mph and 12% auto incline, it seems like it's everything I am looking for in a walking pad. If anyone has experience with DeerRun generally, I'd like to know about that as well.