Would you take a job with no WFH option?

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It's 2022. A lot of jobs offer the option to Work From Home a few times a week.

The question is, would you ever go back to a job where you HAD to work in the office all week?

I'm hoping to try for a baby in the next 12 months.

I work in Construction (male dominated and not always welcoming to women) and there is limited scope for me to WFH. I have a job offer on the table for good money but no option to work from home. I have another job offer with the Civil Service, a lot less money but more scope for progression. And offers hybrid working.

Just wondering really, for both parents and non-parents, would you ever do a fully office based role again?

Ah, sorry to hear that.
My post was actually directed to UselessASD though as they said they are not liking WFH, not yourself haha.

Can I ask what you switched from? And have you managed to climb back up the career ladder / pay scale?

No. I have been full time wfh since March 2020 and there doesn’t seem to be any push to get us back in - we can go in if we want to, but no one does, and they’re very much taking the view that as long as the work is done they don’t care where that happens.

It took some getting used to but I love it now. I can walk my daughter to school every day.

I still use childcare though (nursery and after school club) as my kids are only 7 and 4, and I get fook all done with them in the house. It irritates me when people don’t do this.

Sorry op. Since the stupid update I don't see where anyone has quoted anyone else. It's really pissing annoying!!

For you, no, I'd want hybrid.

For me, I don't like it, and prefer to be in the office. I hate doing accounts on a laptop. I prefer to be in the office, 3 screens, asking people questions is so much easier. I am only working at home one day a week atm, because I prefer it, as the max I'll be at home.

Nope.
Genuinely wouldn't even bother to read the job ad if there was no WFH option for at least 50% of the working week. I am a hybrid worker currently and that works really well for me.

No. I have been wfh for about 15 years. It would be very hard for me to go back to an office.

I also have a disability that is complicated to accommodate in an office full-time. Wfh makes it a non-issue. It’s not too difficult to make arrangements for the occasional in-office meeting.

Wfh done well means you have duplicates of those screens at home and just move the laptop back and forth between docking stations.

Nope. Not a chance but I have been largely home based for the last 10 years so not just a convert becy of Covid

As a teacher I get the best of both worlds. Full time working at school and WFH evenings, some students weekends and some holidays!

Lol my MIL is a teacher. People not wanting to go back to the office gives her the absolute RAGE. It’s kind of funny. Not my fault my job is one that can be done from home when hers isn’t - I wish she would stop implying that we aren’t actually doing any work though.

@WeOnlyTalkAboutBruno

Lol my MIL is a teacher. People not wanting to go back to the office gives her the absolute RAGE. It’s kind of funny. Not my fault my job is one that can be done from home when hers isn’t - I wish she would stop implying that we aren’t actually doing any work though.

Yeah that really pisses me off.

😂HAHA!

I'm a non-parent and no, there's no chance I would choose a job with no WFH option unless I absolutely had to.

I wouldn't like to WFH. It would be so isolated. Part of working in a successful workplace is surely having colleagues to work with, having a moan with,socialising with, having a laugh with and so on .
Your home shouldn't be turned into a working environment that you can never escape because you live there too. Employers don't care about the distinction.

Cauliflower, you beat me to it!
This is how I explain teacher holidays these days: "In the office term time, WFH evenings, weekends and school holidays".
I'd love a job where I could WFH!

My brother (an airplane refitter, so not really practical to do at home as his driveway isn't big enough 😂) is worse than that he regularly rants on facebook about "those people" who are WFH should get their wages cut as they don't have the expenses he has, or "those slackers" who WFH are ruining the economy.

I reply to every post "Are you talking about me dear brother, green is a good colour on you" (his footie rivals are in green so it winds him up even more).

I work in construction OP - if you work for a developer/house builder then WFH is a distant dream - everyone I know if back in the office and hybrid/WFH options are non existent

If you are in consultancy on the other hand pretty much everyone offering hybrid

Have to say I love the work life balance of WFH and I have young children but that doesn't mean I can save in childcare they are all either in full time childminder or before/after school club but it is a lot less stressful than it used to be

Yes, but if you are thinking about children then go for the Civil Service job. The pay is lower but you will find it fat better for appointments, maternity pay (mostly), security and the inevitable need for leave at short notice that comes with having small children.

Yes, I hated working from home, and working in the office is only really useful if you have other colleagues there as well.
I would worry about whether the company was flexible in other ways though and would want to check that out first.

Wfh done well means you have duplicates of those screens at home and just move the laptop back and forth between docking stations.

That requires a lot more dedicated workspace at home than a lot of people have, though.

My mum is exactly the same, she brings it up almost weekly that those ‘people’ should get back in the office. ‘They’re not doing their jobs’ because she read it in the daily mail. It really winds me up as I was forced to work at home and hybrid now. She implies that no work is done working at home yet has never worked in an office never mind one in 2022. No clue at all.

No. Pre pandemic I did Fridays WFH, now I do two days a week, as does DH. It means we have one mad day a week where we’re juggling getting back from central London to do nursery pick up, but the other four days are much calmer. I couldn’t do it 5 days a week and realistically one of us would have had to quit work or take a lower paid local job if we didn’t both have that option.

Also in construction here, I am 3 in the office and 2 at home. But I would take a full time office role, a lot of the time on site it's VERY fast moving and having access to people immediately rather than having to chase them across Team/email/phone is really important.

Do you really think everyone has that luxury of space? In the office I have laptop plus 2 screens. At home I have a corner of a table and nothing extra, working off a dining chair. Nothing else would fit, even if my employer would provide it.