Why are (some) people so against WFH?

[thistimenextyearwellbemillionaires]

I see so many threads on here about why people shouldn't be able to WFH and I don't really understand why people would be against it

For most people it seems make sense with their home life & financially as saving on commuting costs. When my children were young I was 5 days in the office and had to rush back from town to collect them and it was so stressful, it must be great for people not to have to do that now.

I know some people might take the piss a bit, but this happened when people were in the office full time too, there would always be someone always in late, leaving early etc.

I am lucky that my company is hybrid and no plans to change that. I've been offered another role recently which was a big pay rise but 5 days in the office and have decided to stay where I am. Where I work, whether you're in the office or at home you're expected to produce the same work and results and if you don't you'd be out so they're no slouch in terms of expectations of their employees.

Interested to know people's honest opinions.

A few years ago I had a job where I had to be available to take a call at any time so I had a work mobile and used to carry it around with me, including to the loo and if I was having a shower after a lunchtime run. And yes, it did once ring when I was in the shower!

But it illustrates that WFH does not mean you can't use a phone :)

In my experience jobs have always been centralised in London and employment opportunities have never been as good outside.

If anything WFH improves job opportunities outside London because you can work remotely rather than having to commute to a London office every day.

And there are plenty of co-working hubs if you don't want to work at home.

And where I work, we've opened more offices in the regions, not closed them.

So there might be cases of employers closing regional offices but I expect there are as many of them opening them, too.

Also, in my comment, I did say that some employers had closed offices. You obviously didn't read that bit. But in the vast majority of cases, you can go to an office and also in the vast majority of cases, people had their jobs before covid, so that was what they did. So if they don't like remote working, they don't have to do it.

If anyone is vehemently anti WFH and sees no good in it whatsoever I suspect they might be a micromanager, an office martyr or an absent dad who wants to avoid parenting and homelife

To be fair i know a couple of f2f workers who are very bitter about wfh but it is not driven by jealousy per se.

Its driven by the fact that remote work has reduced the pressure to address things like transport, childcare and housing costs, but as f2f workers they are still heavily impacted by these.

The f2f workers i know like nurses & teachers have had the lowest pay rises through the inflationary period, but are suffering more with these costs than remote workers are. So they are ending up financially worse and worse off.