If you worked from home in March/April 2020

[goldengirlz]

... are you back in an office?

[candreco]

None of the options really fit for me... my office is open at limited capacity, but I could basically be in the office as much as I want and I currently average about one day out of every two weeks, and when things fully reopen I'll be 50/50 in office/telework.

I previously teleworked 1-2 days a week, management is much more accepting of it now so new policies will allow for more.

[goldengirlz]

Our official return date is in the fall but we can start electing to return in stages. H convinced me to sign up (I’ve been pretty miserable at home) but I’m wondering if downtown and the subway will still be eerily empty.

[mysteriouswife]

I was laid off in 2020. My current employer closed the office Mar. 2020. We have a soft return of June for the entire company. Our office is in limbo. We had remodel scheduled for 2020. That was placed on hold. If they move forward next month like planned we cannot return until competition. With the construction crew we will be over the company’s limit of people in a building. We will be returning on a 2/3 and 3/2 schedule to limit the amount of people

[mysteriouswife]

Apr 25, 2021 20:37:16 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

Our official return date is in the fall but we can start electing to return in stages. H convinced me to sign up (I’ve been pretty miserable at home) but I’m wondering if downtown and the subway will still be ghost towns.

I can tell you this is not the case in Nashville. Traffic is worse for H on days in the office than it was pre-covid

[sofamonkey]

I voted, but I was furloughed March/April 2020. I went back many months ago though, but the non clinic portion of our workers are proposed to come back in July.

[goldengirlz]

Apr 25, 2021 20:35:52 GMT -5 candreco said:

None of the options really fit for me... my office is open at limited capacity, but I could basically be in the office as much as I want and I currently average about one day out of every two weeks, and when things fully reopen I'll be 50/50 in office/telework.

I previously teleworked 1-2 days a week, management is much more accepting of it now so new policies will allow for more.

Hmm ... I guess in this scenario, if you’re back at least one day, you can count your office as open and vote accordingly. (Or — for others — if it’s a limited open and you don’t qualify yet, you can vote as if it’s still closed.) You’re right though — I should have included that distinction.

[abs]

DH just started going back once a week. He thinks September for more people to return but it will be phased. He’s really enjoyed going back in.

[Deleted]

We were 100% in-office pre-Covid. We have been 100% WFH since March 2020. We are looking at a return to office in June on a hybrid model of 2-3 days/week in office and the remaunder at home. I don't think i can ever do 40 hours/week in the office again.

[sugarbear]

School, and yes.

[sarahsays]

Yes, I'm a member of our university's COVID response team so I've been back on campus a few days a week since last August.

[W.T.Faulkner]

I work at a school, but I returned two weeks ago and spend 4 days a week, 5 hours a day at school. On Wednesdays I work from home.

[mccallister84]

I voted for H who’s office has no return date yet.

[heygrey]

I’m in public education (elementary school). Staff returned full time in June 2020 with students part time. All returned full time for start in September.

[katfco]

Yes, school has been back since the beginning of February. 

DH is still working from home until sometime in the summer, and because of DD, is probably going to try to extend that. Seems like his supervisor is trying to convince the CEO to make work from home more of a regular post-COVID option.

[pumpkin]

I’m in the app and can’t see the poll....

Prior to March 2020 I worked at home 50% of the time. Since March 2020 I’ve been 100% WAH.

Only a handful of people out of hundreds are back in the office and they are the only ones who are public facing. Otherwise there is no return to the office date for the rest of us as of now and I don’t anticipate it being until the fall at the earliest.

[noodleoo]

My office hasn’t opened yet for office staff (lab and manufacturing staff are back in the office as needed). We don’t have a return date yet but my boss already told me that they will likely allow some amount of WFH permanently. This is a huge change from prepandemic and very welcome. H is mostly in the same boat. No return date for his office yet either. He was already WFH 1-2 days a week, I anticipate he will only be in the office when he has to be there for meetings/trainings when they actually do go back. He had a long commute, so that’s pretty exciting. We’ve started eating dinner so much earlier with everyone home, I’m really enjoying that.

[cjcouple]

I don't know what to pick. My office is only 50% capacity but not mandatory return. I go once every month or so to show my face but work home 95% of the time. lol.

We don't have an office return to work date yet.

Very few people are in the office.

[brooklyn]

My husband’s Manhattan office has no return date yet.

[penguingrrl]

I’m back in the office the 4 days a week I work. But my job interacts with the general public so much of my work requires me to be onsite (and other work requires use of our archives, so still can’t be done remotely).

DH hasn’t been to his office yet. They’re planning to bring people back i stages starting in July but he’s hoping his neurologist writes a note for him to remain 100% remote permanently.

[devonpow]

I’ll answer for DH since I’m a SAHM. He’s still home with his company still on a travel shut down (previously there was a lot of international travel) with no return to travel timeline set yet. All offices worldwide are open but there is no pressure to work from the office. Only if you want to get out of your house.

[sadlebred]

I've been WFH officially for 18+ months but had been going into the office once/week until last Feb. to help some contractors we had and make sure they had everything they needed, help them with any training, etc. Those employees working remote that have to be in the office will be brought back very slowly over several months. The offices probably won't be "full" til early 2022 or until the pandemic is over.

[carmenere]

Currently yes, but going back several days a week starting next month. I work at a school and my team is the last to return - most people have been back on campus since October.

[Roc A Bee]

I’ve been back in the office 20-30 hours a week. I’ve been like this since January. In June, I’ll be in the office 30 hours. Probably in August It will be 40 hours.

[circa1978]

Both DH and I have been working from home since March. Different employers (health insurance/higher ed), no return date announced but we've both been told it won't be before August.

[krystee]

Both H and I are still WFH with no return date other than “probably some time in fall, and maybe just a couple days a week” from my employer, and nothing from his.

[isabel]

No. Our team is returning to the office May 3rd. That's everyone in our group regardless of which office you're in (CO, KS, TX). Our new permanent in-office schedule is Monday, Wednesday and every other Friday, so we will not be returning to the office five days per week as we were pre-pandemic.

DH has also been home full-time since March and his employer has not said anything about returning. I honestly doubt he'll go back to any sort of typical office schedule. He was already only going in a couple times per week and has no real reason to actually be in the office.

[kooshball]

Nope. No idea when I will go back. I guess 10% are going back in June but that won't be me. I have also decided to mostly stay working from home. I'll probably end up going in 2 or so days a week with limit hours.

[wildrice]

I put we return this summer, but I am kind of SS i guess? I have been in the office once a week the last 2 weeks, and will gradually add days through May and June. In July we are expected back 5 days a week.

[sweetchix]

My manager and I were going in 1-2x a month, for about 4 hours, to mail out checks to our health funds from March to June. In a building made for 500, they were only allowing 5-8 people in the building at a time. Then, in July, they started letting more people in as long as we sat in a zig-zag pattern and followed the social distancing rules that had set. At that time, my whole department was coming in just during billing and then working from home for most of the rest of the month. We had a new hire in February and I’ve actually been in the office almost every day since then to train her. I think I’ve worked from home 3 times since then. I prefer to work from the office and will continue to as long as they allow us to.

ETA: our manager needs to sign us up for days we’ll be in. I’m not sure if that’s for capacity reasons or what, but on any given day there are at least 30 and at most 80 people throughout the building (3 floors).