Are you still working at home? If so what industry?

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Anyone still not bothered to go back to the office?

What industry are you in if you're still at home and not being pressured to get back to the office?

Voluntary sector, still Wfh but office available for meetings, but we will be closing the office as its one less overhead and productivity is up remotely.

The office is open, but there's no pressure to go in. I generally go once or twice a week, it's nice to see people and meet up for coffees/lunch and have a change of scene. But I get more work done at home, and I have a lot of meetings with the US, so it's nice to be already at home when I finish when it's after 6.
The work cafe doesn't open on Fridays as there's so few people in. And they closed the canteen - there's microwave stuff and a salad bar in the cafe instead (as well as sandwiches and pastries, which it always had).
I'm in drug development (analysis, not lab based).

I work in technology. I bloody love WFH as it means I can keep on top of family life. Plus I am past the point where after work drinks with colleagues is an important part of my Thursday/ Friday nights now. Instead, we meet for whole day workshops and overnighters once a quarter and catch up properly and have dinner and drinks out.
I feel really sorry for people starting out in the careers though as half empty offices aren't great for networking. It's just the young and single older people in our office nowadays.

....I should add I do go to the office once a week though.

Public Health (I've a manager role). My team's role is remote to improve access to our services, within the context of 'post lockdown'. Although we've no office, we work with offices and clients/patients nationwide.

Ditto too. But in digital services.

Still in digital services now but self employed and working from home.

Marketing for financial services. We're hybrid, but focused on making time in the office work for us, rather than just being in for no reason, so there's lots of meetings on office days. Everyone agrees we get more actual work done at home, office days are about collaboration.

NHS HCP. Have always been peripatetic but was required to go in once a week for meetings etc, these are now via teams. It's lush.

Higher Education- permanent hybrid working now. We are in the office 2-3 days per week unless there’s a face to face activity like graduations where we need to be here all week.

IT. Might go to hybrid later this year.

Prof services, I go in twice a month, my contract states at home.

I was two days WFH anyway before covid so wouldn't agree to anything less.

Also we are mandated from the big mothership company 'virtual first'. They make it sound about environment, mental health etc but it's actually about cost cutting in office space.

Public sector communications. Still working from home. We're being encouraged to go in for face to face meetings, if it will be productive, but not to just go in for the sake of being in an office.

Accountant - the company I work for is completely remote we don't have an office and are all way too far apart from each other to bother getting one. I love it.

@soundofsilver I do think that sometimes too. I trained in practice, and was only thinking the other day training firms must still be mostly in office. Thursday night was always a big one for us! Eating free cocktail sausages/ wedges and drinking whatever crap was on offer that week for ridiculously badly paid young professionals in what we thought was an interesting bar. I have many contacts from those times. It would be sad to miss out on that part.

Yes, in IT.

I travel into an office (mostly client sites) maybe once every other week, plus a quarterly trip to HQ in Northern Ireland for 2-3 days.

Otherwise, I am home. I love it but do miss going into a regular office a bit and seeing colleagues. 1-2 days a week in a local office would be ideal, but I live miles from anywhere.

I work for a US tech company. Most people are going in to the office once a week, max twice. I'm not going in at all (except occasionally to meet friends for lunch or whatever) because my entire team is US based so I won't see them anyway, so might as well be at home.

I’m in Business mentoring and always worked from home.
DH was full time in the office (IT) but hes 1 day a fortnight now

Pharmaceutical Consultancy. WFH 2 days per week pre pandemic. Office now closed and all 'home based with travel.'

Oil company, haven’t been in the office once since covid

Finance. It's not that I can't be bothered but there is just no need.

I’m FT WFH, no expectation to attend an office. It’s a distribution company.

I'm a product manager for a travel type company. I can choose home or office (I choose home 3 days a week, office 2 days a week because DC2 attends a forest school near work those days). DH is in IT, he can choose home or office. Goes in the office less than once per month.

HE. I go in to teach, and do pretty much everything else from home. So depending on the time of year, I might be in 3 days a week or not at all.

My students are scattered all over and spend half their time on placement so it's much more convenient for them and me if they can ring me on Teams during a shift rather than having to pay to come into my office on their day off.

Thankfully my faculty is very sensible about it all and treats us like adults who know how to do our jobs. It's never been a bums-on-seats kind of job anyway but I'd leave without a backward glance if they suggested I needed to sit in my office every day just for the hell of it.

Solicitor - changed jobs a few weeks ago. Both jobs were hybrid, but my last firm had two 'core' days that my team went into the office, rest was WFH. New job doesn't have that requirement, so I tend to go in about once a week - but it's entirely my choice when or if I go in. Nobody really cares as long as the work gets done, and that we show up at the office if a client meeting is booked (rare!). Definitely prefer hybrid done this way - their being more flexible means I'm more willing able to be flexible if I need to work late on a client matter.

Civil service, government dept. Although contrary to your question and Jacob Rees Mogg's moaning, it's not that I "haven't bothered" to go back to the office, we have made a conscious choice to work mostly remotely. My team go in once a week for an in-person meeting, have lunch together, etc, then work remotely the rest of the week. We are more productive as a result.