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?

Also many public sector employees have a lot of benefits that private sector employees don’t have. Excellent pensions. Flexitime.

For professionals though, including those without qualifications but with experience, the pay is crap compared to private sector. The 'benefits' are an attempt to offset that.

I’m my (admittedly a bit parochial) neck of the woods there isn’t much of a difference salary wise. Perhaps slightly higher in the private sector but certainly not enough to write home about.

There is also a much better work life balance in the public sector. We have lost loads of staff to the public sector. Loads.

No. I'd rather less money than returning to the office. WFH has changed my life 100% for the better.

There is in the sector I'm in, easy to double it elsewhere. Perhaps your employer needs to rethink the perks and pay they offer staff if they're all leaving.

TBH, workwise covid has been amazing for me. Since the DC I've been scratching around with multiple simultaneous freelance contracts so I can work fully from home around school runs and what not as DH earns good money commuting into a big city. Suddenly in the last year there's loads of great 100% WFH options in my sector and I now have a FT role with WFH in my contract from day one, quaint things like holiday pay and pension and no more faffing with chasing invoices and such.

Covid has been so tough for many reasons but work wise it's been amazing for me, and ironically DH is now hybrid working so our work life balance is ace.

I'd never consider a non WFH role now, and I think even he has seen the benefits of hybrid working.