‘Why does just going into an office job make you so tired?’: Employees who work in site jobs open up about the disadvantages of going to work at an office every day. – FAIL Blog

Working remote, everyone’s dream!

What is so bad about having an in-site job that it makes employees feel so hopeless? Is it how offices are displayed with the boring colors and workstations too close to each other? Is it the people you have to see every day who you wouldn’t even share a word with if it wasn’t for that job? Or is it the fact that you have to wake up earlier, get ready, and travel to the office every day, losing even more free time? There are millions of reasons we can think of to hate having to go to the office. This Reddit thread below certainly had a lot. But that doesn’t mean that everything about working in-site is awful. 

Something extremely valuable about going to the office to work is definitely the support, especially when you are just starting a new job. You need help, real help, someone by your side explaining everything to you, from how to open the systems you are going to use every day to how the coffee is made in the coffee machine. That experience is not perfectly achievable unless you have someone by your side. 

Another thing that I really liked about going to work onsite was the friends you made there, coworkers you started being friendly with out of respect and manners and ended up evolving into amazing friendships you conserve through time. You can’t be friends, or at least it is not easy, with someone you only see on your computer screen once a week. 

You may have a million reasons to believe that remote work is the best, and I would probably agree with that. But to completely disregard the good things on-site work has is to not see the full picture. Yes, it’s nice to wake up 5 minutes before your shift, to stay in your comfy sweats the whole day, and to eat a homemade lunch. But it’s also healthy to get out of your house and interact with people, to acclimate yourself to different environments and network with your colleagues. I bet if you think about it at least for a few seconds, you can definitely see something positive about working from the office, and something negative about working remotely.