“The office needs to be a space that’s better than their own homes (and considering the state of renting in London at the moment, this really isn’t a hard ask).”
This has been borne out in my life lately. I spent 18 months of mandatory WFH creating a work space in my flat which was significantly better than the immediate pre pandemic hot-desking situation (if not the 2018 office where I had my own desk with a vertical board I could pin fun stuff up on and leave my phone chargers plugged in) and as a result in the 2 years since then I barely went back into the office. Despite living a 15 minute walk away, the office wasn’t that great a place to be and mostly my direct colleagues weren’t there anyway.
BUT I have now moved to the other end of the country where my local office (of the same organisation) has recently been zhuzhed up (although not always in a way that makes it easy to get work done...). But the secret sauce of why I go in four days a week: I haven’t set up a desk and monitor in my new flat. And as part of that - I’ve realised that 80/20 is way easier than 40/60 or 60/60 because it means I know what I’m doing and don’t have to spent mental energy on figuring out where I am on any given day.
“The office needs to be a space that’s better than their own homes (and considering the state of renting in London at the moment, this really isn’t a hard ask).”
This has been borne out in my life lately. I spent 18 months of mandatory WFH creating a work space in my flat which was significantly better than the immediate pre pandemic hot-desking situation (if not the 2018 office where I had my own desk with a vertical board I could pin fun stuff up on and leave my phone chargers plugged in) and as a result in the 2 years since then I barely went back into the office. Despite living a 15 minute walk away, the office wasn’t that great a place to be and mostly my direct colleagues weren’t there anyway.
BUT I have now moved to the other end of the country where my local office (of the same organisation) has recently been zhuzhed up (although not always in a way that makes it easy to get work done...). But the secret sauce of why I go in four days a week: I haven’t set up a desk and monitor in my new flat. And as part of that - I’ve realised that 80/20 is way easier than 40/60 or 60/60 because it means I know what I’m doing and don’t have to spent mental energy on figuring out where I am on any given day.