> The home office I have shoved into a corner is better than what any employer will provide.
> I too wish for a raise, and the financial ability to afford an entire room to dedicate to work, and the crazy things I might be able to put in there, like a whiteboard.
How can you claim that your home office is better than your employer's when it doesn't even have a whiteboard? To bring it back to the point of the article, bring back private offices. Employers that want employees in the office should invest in offices to the point that it is a better office than a corner of your home. It won't be able to complete with your commute, as you pointed out, but why do you claim that the home office you have shoved into a corner is better than what any employer will provide?
Yeah, I really like my home office setup, with a curved ultra wide screen monitor and my special chair. I don't think that it's unreasonable that, if they want me in the office, that I have the same sort of set up there.
> How can you claim that your home office is better than your employer's when it doesn't even have a whiteboard?
Because "better" is a function with multiple inputs. The whiteboard was better, true, but by comparison the commute sucks, the noise sucks, the desk sucks, the chair sucks. The whiteboard is a pretty minor thing, in the scoring of it all.
(I actually do have a whiteboard at home, but it's ~8x11". Pen and paper, and Krita, make up the difference, I suppose.)
> Employers that want employees in the office should invest in offices to the point that it is a better office than a corner of your home.
… they should… but they don't? I've worked the majority? all? of my career in offices on 4ft desks, most of it on open office floorplans. The "best" in half-height cubical. Best I ever got was a summer internship with a full-height shared cube.
> but why do you claim that the home office you have shoved into a corner is better than what any employer will provide?
Because we, as an employee group, put up with that. If only there were some way we could band together and say we don't like these working conditions. some sort of disjoint set of a group of people.
> I too wish for a raise, and the financial ability to afford an entire room to dedicate to work, and the crazy things I might be able to put in there, like a whiteboard.
How can you claim that your home office is better than your employer's when it doesn't even have a whiteboard? To bring it back to the point of the article, bring back private offices. Employers that want employees in the office should invest in offices to the point that it is a better office than a corner of your home. It won't be able to complete with your commute, as you pointed out, but why do you claim that the home office you have shoved into a corner is better than what any employer will provide?
Yeah, I really like my home office setup, with a curved ultra wide screen monitor and my special chair. I don't think that it's unreasonable that, if they want me in the office, that I have the same sort of set up there.