Comments on: Open Thread: Would You Go Back?

By: What would it take to get me to work in an office again? Seriously? | John Watson

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:21:58 +0000

[...] Joel on Software article (of Fog Creek Software) got me thinking about this a while ago and Web Worker Daily reminded me again today. Maybe I just had a string of bad experiences, but I honestly don’t [...]

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By: Smudded

Smudded — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:29:06 +0000

I work in an office right now. I absolutely hate it. I have a web project I’m working on at home that I hope will allow me to be self employed. I love working on that site from home. I hate commuting to an office and dealing with the office life. End of story. If I can help it, im never coming back to corporate America.

By: Mary-Ann Horley

Mary-Ann Horley — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:48:23 +0000

@Stewart: Yeah, that’s what I meant by my working at Facebook comment. But let’s face it, most companies aren’t like that.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:47:56 +0000

We employ some of the best knowledge workers in the world. I have staff that works all around the world. If I have to tell you what to do, we are both in the wrong job. Work where you will, do what needs to get done.

What’s wrong with that?

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:44:05 +0000

I’ve been able to work at home occasionally at various jobs, but would love to return to that permanently. I’m at a cube job right now and luckily they are flexible about hours, but I’d say that my ideal come-into-the-office situation would be one where I could come in much later. I’m in Chicago and one of the train lines is undergoing a major overhaul, so it’s affecting commute times for everyone. My single biggest peeve is how much of my personal time is wasted during my commute to and from work.

By: Rob Witham

Rob Witham — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:52:41 +0000

I would be very, very slow to ever return to the 9-5 corporate grind. A great salary would only be part of the necessary program to get me back to corporate life. Flexible scheduling, better office conditions, accessibility without driving, etc, etc. I don’t see myself going back though. Sorry corporate America. Wake up and outsource to all of us freelancing web workers!

By: almostgotit

almostgotit — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:01:43 +0000

Working at home means worrying about whether they’ll be any work tomorrow (or next week), keeping many more tax records (and paying through the NOSE at tax time), spending huge swaths of time on your own, having to manage your own time and police it against all would-be intruders.

I wouldn’t ever want to romanticize it :) — and if the right 9-5 came along, I’d still take it. BUT now that I’ve tasted a decent hourly wage, setting my own hours, and getting AWAY from all the really terrible things that attended my last job working in a large bureacracy…. well, it’s pretty great, I have to admit. But I do fantasize, still, about something that would combine the best of both worlds…

By: Manny

Manny — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:39:36 +0000

The biggest departure for me was to see the impact of my work almost immediately. I used to work for Procter & Gamble, at a diaper manufacturing facility. I learned a ton in terms of management, but compare that to what you can accomplish (in terms of product management and product development) online and it's like day and night. A good example of this is what we've been able to accomplish at TuDiabetes.com, a Social Network for Diabetics that I founded recently. Thanks to the sheer power of other sites linking to it, membership has skyrocketed over the weekend. Try to do that in the physical world... You can't reproduce it.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:01:20 +0000

Would I go back? I just want to get OUT! I have taken some of your advise from previous postings on working from home….checked some of the job posting sites, sent resumes to companies on my own, etc. I am still stuck in my large front office, facing a “old dog” type office manager all day, missing my daughter while she is at summer day care, worried that I only have 3 days of paid vacation time left, trying to look busy, even when I’m not so I don’t get that look. If any of you have some new ideas on where a person can get a real job working from home….I am listening! HELP!