If you are working from home, do you want to go back to work?

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I really really do, but no-one I know seems to, they are quite happy sitting at home. Or are worried about it being safe when nothing is safe.

I’d be happy to continue to WFH and my organisation is already working out details of how they will manage it. I am also thinking of requesting compressed hours into a 4 day week, due to saving the equivalent of a day a week by not commuting.

I'd love to go back. I miss my colleagues, and those off the cuff conversations in the corridors that can lead to brilliant ideas. I miss catching up in the kitchen over impromptu cups of tea. I miss my cycle to work and even the sheer routine of it all.

I'm terrible wfh. I find it hard to switch off and, with my 'office' being in the kitchen, my work email draws me in when I should be making dinner or having a cuppa. And I don't move enough!

I’d love to work from home full time but sadly wouldn’t want to lose the London weighting. Could easily see them saying they could get rid of our office and us work from home but also cut our London weighting for those not in London in order to make even more savings.

I’d like to be in the office but not travel
On two trains and a tube to get there .

I'm part time, walking distance from office.

I suspect we'll go back at some point but be socially distanced. I'm the only team member who is on site on Monday's so I think I'll be expected back in the office at least 1 out of 3 days.

For me it's all a moot point as I have 3 children (2 are primary age and a toddler who is in the shielding group) so until the schools and / or shielding advice allows me to return to the office, then I can't?

Yes definitely! I was supposed to be moving roles and moving forward with my career and everything has just halted. I was feeling stuck in a rut anyway and I’ve been really low the last few weeks not being able to move forward.

I miss my colleagues, miss bouncing off each other and coming up with new ideas, having a laugh. And the structure and routine I guess.

DH is totally different and loves being at home.

Yes, I'm not cut out for WFH. It was OK for the first couple of weeks but I'm really fed up with it now. I need to be around my colleagues, for bouncing ideas off, keeping up with what they are all doing (teams and email is not the same as daily conversations). I'm missing them personally too, we are a close knit bunch. Also we haven't got much space so I'm at the kitchen table which isn't ideal. At the moment it's tolerable because my teen DCs are at home too so I'm not on my own all day, I'd hate it even more if they were at school.

I already do/ did half my week from home. If anything this has served to remind me how much I get out of being in the office and interacting with my colleagues. We're managing fine all from home but god, I miss them (even though I ranted about the train journey there on a regular basis!) Sadly I think it'll be ages before we go back, partly as it is working ok from home to partly because we all use public transport to get there. It would be hard to justify making people travel at the moment and many of us have kids at home anyway.

I usually wfh 3 days anyway so it's not a major change for me. I did used to find that if I did over a week at home I started needing the office however I seem to have now got over that rut and so could keep going for ages. I suspect we will be working from home for some months as a central London office so not easy to get to whilst avoiding public transport.

Many other teams who don't wfh so much currently have been enjoying it and I think there will be a shift more towards it across all departments.

I do suspect that many other firms will go the same way and what will happen to all the Starbucks and other coffee shops.

I work in an office on my own. My colleagues are spread out on other sites. My boss I rarely see even though we’re in the same office. I work in a school and would rather be at home.

assuming things go to plan , ill be in school on the 1st
not sure how i feel really, on one hand im missing the kids big time, but on the other hand its going to be crap for us and them . split groups, unhappy kids not understanding wtf is going on, no teaching as it was
what they are going to be able to touch/ play with i havent a friggin clue

I miss my office very much indeed, but I think this is a seriously bad time to lift the lockdown. There is not enough preparation on effective testing (by proper staff) or tracing, very little work has been done on safe logistics of moving workforce backwards and forwards (and no, this isn't just London) and we have insufficient understanding of new features of the disease- e.g. the emergence of Kawasaki symptoms in young children.

Wfh is much harder work for me, but my employer will not be sending us back for a long time yet and I am glad of that.