If you WFH in winter, would you rather?

[WFHinWinter]

1. Go into the office (assuming there is an office space available) and use their light and heat to keep warm.

Or

2. Still work at home despite the added heating costs or faff to try to stay warm without using heating?

I feel like it would just be easier (cost and warmth wise) to go into the office, but at the same time I love home working and not sure I can be arsed to get myself into the office.

You?

Costs me £4 a day to commute to and from work so it’s deffo cheaper for me to go in than have the heat on :)

I have to leave the house anyway and get on a bus to take my daughter to nursery which is near my job so I may as well just go in rather than going back home!!!

I reckon in winter il just go in most days

You assume there’s an office to go to, DH company is fully remote. They hire meeting rooms as hoc.

So I’d WFH because we have to heat the house for DH anyway. And I think I’d feel the same regardless as my commute is an hour (I am on hybrid) and I don’t like driving in the dark.

Yes I did say assuming there is an office.

Tube commute is £5.80, so probably quite nicely poised against what I'd spend on heating the house and boiling endless kettles for tea.

However that assumes I'm the only person in the house- if DH or DC are already here then my heating costs are essentially free.

Home working
Use a hot water bottle at my back
Wear lots of layers as necessary
Wear fluffy socks and fluffy slippers

Couple of hot drinks through the day and refill hot water bottle the same time as to not keep boiling the kettle.

I also have one of those wheat bags you heat in microwave which i will use if I need to.

Home working with my electric blanket/throw wrapped round me. Best thing I ever got!

It appears that most people would prefer to wfh mainly due to the cost/time of getting to work.
So why do the train unions think it is a good idea to go on strike? If you add travel delays into the mix surely even more people will wfh? Less passengers mean less trains are needed so more chance of redundancy.
Aren’t they shootings themselves in the foot?

I wasn't expecting such a consensus of people continuing to work at home.

Is it purely the cost of commute versus the cost of hearing at home or primarily the fact that you have no interest in being in the office?

Fair point

On behalf of my husband.

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I am surprised it would cast people fiver a day+ to keep warm during the day (,bar kedical conditions)😳 what the heck are your unit costs

Commuting costs me £45 per day. Even with bonkers price rises, that's always going to be more than heating the house. I hope!

My husband has no interest in going to the office but:

We have no children at home, unless I am looking after the grandchildren.

He has his own office space. More of a large cupboard than a room, but it works for him.

He is more productive at home with no distractions.

WfH - although home was fucking freezing last winter and I do feel the cold.

I'm going to get one of those heated throws this winter, plus I'll be able to have the heating on just in the office this year. Last winter DH and ds were both at home all day so we ended up heating the whole house every day - that won't be affordable this time round!

My commute isn't too expensive but there's never anyone in the office anyway, and I waste money on coffee/snacks etc whenever I do go in. So it's layers, hot water bottle, fingerless gloves and a heated throw for me this year!

The Government doesn’t seem to want us to work from home. Soaring energy prices mean that many people won’t be able to afford to. The trouble is fuel has gone up too but hey that means that it will cost the same as the train so at least it will get people out of their cars 🙄

WFH everytime!
OH is at home during the day so heating is already on. For the cost of running a couple of screens and boiling the kettle for a few drinks I am more than happy to stand the cost if it means I don't have to go into the office (nil travel costs, just the time it takes to get there).

I would have gone into work but it was only a mile walk or 5 minute drive

Always WFH.

I've worked from home for years. And have always had minimal running costs with the heating etc. So even with the exorbitant costs, I'd still do this over the office. I don't think that for many with a commute to work that it would cost less when you factor in the associated costs, unless, like me, you'd get your travel paid for going to office in terms of hmrc rates, where it may break even o better overall.

I stay at home.

I am that twat 😂which is why I'd WFH every time - it's better for everyone!

The reason to go in to office is seeing people, I'm not thinking about the energy (what you'd save in that would be used in transport to and from the office I would have thought).

I much prefer going into the office at least part time but that's because my team are mainly working in the labs on site (I work in pharma) and I like to see them F2F. Looking forward to the aircon this week. It's more expensive for me to drive to work and have work clothes etc but it's worthwhile, both for my mental wellbeing and from a work perspective. I get more done at work and feel energised when I'm with my workmates, I know what's going on when I'm in the office and am much more visible both to my team and my boss. People forget about you when you WFH all the time. I was out with some of my workmates last week and those who were on site all through lockdown spoke about what a privilege it was to still have that human contact at that time.

WFH. Trains are unreliable at the best of times, much worse in winter. Walking to / from station in cold, miserable weather - getting wet and having to dry out in the office. No thanks.

The office is 150 miles from where I live and winters are mild here. So I’d not save anything by going to the office.