Have you returned to working in a physical office?

I’m doing a 60/40 split - on-site some days, remote others.

I’m surprised this wasn’t one of the poll options.

Retired, unemployed, etc.

office was re-modeled.
no one has a permanent desk anymore. Its all shared corroborative spaces now. Only enough shared desks for 3/4 of the staff at any one time. Have to book a spot on an app to come in. Then clean out everything at the end of the day so it can be wiped down overnight. They gave us lockers, just like being in high school. Additionally onsite parking has tripled in price. (office is not public transport friendly).
Almost seems like they don't want us to come back.

I've been working from home for more than a decade.

I started at this company during COVID and no desk has been assigned. As far as I'm concerned, since the team is spread around the US, there's no good reason to go in to the office. Boss is in Canada/Arizona, dev team is in Chicago, Texas, and Seattle, QA team is in South Carolina and India. My coworker and I are the only ones near the office.

[John]

We having been working under a "Hybrid" model since June, 2021. We have been relocated to a smaller building where we need to be in the office 40% of our time. Oh joy. I work for a State Agency, and throughout the state, each agency has determined what is best for their employees. Some have not had to return to the office yet, even at this late date. To say that Morale has been impacted is to say the Grand Canyon has a bit of depth to it.

I have been working remotely for 2 years now, except that for the last 4 weeks cable Internet in my street in urban Berlin has been completely offline. So I currently spend a lot of time in my office. My work PC no longer works properly, so even in the office I use the Lenovo Tiny PC I bought 2 years ago for home office in changing locations.

Went home for covid, stayed home, and now with so many people threatening to walk, work-from-home is now a permanent option.

During CoVID, my company allowed most technology employees to switch to permanent remote work. I opted for this, as did many others.

I've worked from home for years. The company I worked for imploded in 2001. Our largest customer bought us out, then what was left slowly disintegrated. When I was the last one standing we tried a shared office space. This had its advantages but eventually we decided it was costing us more than it was worth. So I packed up my laptop and router and set up shop at home.

I can work anywhere if I have fast internet and reasonable time zones vis-à-vis head office in Dallas. I applied this a couple of years

I mainly work from home.

Once everyone realized that meeting in person wasn't actually necessary to do the job, the office building was sold. I love working from home. Office buildings are always either too hot or too cold. There are people there who like to do things like microwave broccoli and tuna. And offices are noisy with people wandering in every 15-20 minutes, which is a major distraction when focus is required.

I've moved to remote-only company after my previous workplace started mulling about getting back to the office.

After Covid my employer wanted us back in the office 4 days a week.
I left the company for another company that allowed working remotely.

I was laid off during work-from-home in 2020. Got a remote job. It's staying remote.

"Have you returned to working in a physical office?"

No, and I never will.

I'm done with office-related bullshit- long commutes, co-worker drama, inclement weather, traffic, commute-related car accidents, and all that other happy horseshit that they want you to put up with.

I'm happily working at home making 6 figures and I have zero intention of returning to an office, ever.

a week officially, compared to 0 before. Some of us already worked from home now and then before, but it is great that we now can do it twice a week.

Some meetings - primarily those that are intended to be brainstorming / creative type meetings, will be held in the office. Those sort of meetings just work better in person. I also go to quite a few conferences for work, and I'm eager for them to get back into the swing.

Otherwise I'm going to carry on working from home permanently, not due to Covid but because if you're just sat in front of a screen it's a better way to work.

We were already some way towards that before Covid. Now, there's no going back.

I was part of a group that the company used to explore the possibility of people returning to the office full time. I was working three days a week in the office, two days a week from home. Unfortunately, that all changed in December when I was struck by a truck while riding my motorcycle back from lunch. Since then, I've been working from home full time till my leg is fully healed.

A: about 10%.

An oldie but goodie.

(For the purpose of the poll, I'm retired. If I weren't. I'd probably be working either remotely or on a customer's site.)

No more office to come back to.

We have an option to use WeWork space for free, let the conference room orgies begin!

I was sent to work from home for 2 weeks, when the cases started exploding in my country. Since covid had little impact here, it's been business as usual ever since. Most of my coworkers have had it, but I've been careful and avoided it, since I'm type 1 diabetic and have enough problems to deal with.

I was working at home before Covid, and like others no way am I going back to any regular office situation even if I changed jobs.

My wife however has had to go back to the office - but not as much. They used to be able to work at home two days a week, after going back now they can work at home three days a week so some improvement there.

Honestly though even that amount is not really needed, she worked at home just fine for a year and a half and they could have done without coming in regularly at all.

I lost a job because of COVID when it first started. (The fallout from the lockdowns and eliminating public events and travel decimated the company I was employed with.). I wound up getting hired on at Amazon to do data center I.T. support for them, which would have required a lot of travel around to various locations to replace bad laptops and so on.

Unfortunately, soon after getting hired for it, the company went to an "all hands on deck" mode where they wanted all of us doing phone or chat support (since

Going on my 5th year now. I guess you could consider managing my investments work though.

I've been remote for around 8 years now with occasional travel to an office. I wouldn't trade it for anything other than a massive increase in salary. Not that it matters since my nearest office is 5 hours away in a different country.

The company I work for (software, about 500 employees) is taking an "if you want to" approach. Offices are opening, they'd like to see people but no plan to force people back. Considering that over the last 8 years we migrated heavily from a must be in office policy to almost 5

The company sold off the office buildings, and then leased two (of 5) back. So there isn’t room for very many people to return to the office. No services, either. No coffee, no lunchroom. Well, the room is still there, but no lunches to be had in it.

There was a single month of working 100% remote. Other than that, it's been 2 days per week in the office and 3 days remote. Management has noticed that developers can write code at home as well as they do in the cube farm.

I'm doing part time in the office and at home.

My previous job reduced their back-office space footprint by 50%. Per the CIO, being in-office should have a reason, and not be "just because".

My new job is full-time remote, hard stop. Remote work has been so successful they've eliminated most of their back-office footprint.

(In neither case has the Customer-Facing real estate been reduced)

Our CEO announced six months into the pandemic that we were now fully remote. I'm OK with that .. although I wouldn't mind the occasional f2f meeting with the team, say once every 2-4 weeks. in Toronto, Canada.

But still very relieved that the lock-down is over.