I’m having flashbacks to my university days, when we found a Jug O’ Mold in the back of the fridge a few months after another guy had moved out…
This is really the only positive for me when it comes to going back to my office. The walks I can take are much more varied and interesting than what I can do here at home.
Lucky for you, the Annual Cleaning wasn’t further down the calendar.
We were supposed to go back to the office in another 2 or 3 weeks. Still are, actually, despite a letter on Friday telling us that all university employees, even those of us who don’t work on campus, will have to wear masks and test for Covid despite being vaccinated - and no one will answer the question of why they want us back in the office now when it wasn’t safe in February under the same case numbers 
We’re supposed to be filling out request forms this month if we’d prefer a hybrid schedule or WFH 100%…I want a hybrid schedule, but I don’t know if I can cope with full days being masked which is a big ask of those of us who have asthma. I really don’t want to have to request permanent work from home over what’ll hopefully be a short term requirement. sigh.
Some people might have to go back to the office to get full pay
Yup.
I did go in to get my desk chair and lamp for working from home. I also have a little refrigerator in my office that needed defrosting. So I brought that home and did that. I took it back in for anyone else to use. There are a few people that need to be on site.
Regular company-paid lunches and/or happy hours might make me interested in going in a bit more regularly - but as my employer does not even provide free COFFEE (not that I’m a coffee drinker - but really, you want to encourage the employees to be caffeinated), that ain’t happening.
Well, and of all the people I work with on my former project are nonlocal, and everyone on my new project is in another time zone, there’d be little point in my going to an office.
I’m going to the office tomorrow. I have a pair of unrelated doctor’s appointments, at 10 and 12:30. And the hospital where the appointments will be is walking distance from my office. And the place is totally empty. I am grabbing an enclosed office and camping out there.
Got word from the office that, due to Covid, our return has been pushed back to at least November 1. I am relieved.
You’d think companies would wake up and say something about how working from home pollutes less and costs us less in overhead, so how about most of is work from home?
A former employer of mine did just that. There is no way their office could accommodate everyone being there at once. They maintain it for meetings with potential clients. It’s also their in-person meeting space for small groups, and their library because not everything is electronic. Yet.
I work for a small county government. GIS department. We have definetly proven that we can work from home. I think we are more productive and the communication between staff is actually better. I know more about what’s going on with the rest of the IS department (GIS is part of the bigger IS). We are supposed to serve the public that just walks in, so we may keep one or two staff in the office when we go back. But so far, it’s worked just fine handling everything with email. No problem at all.
I’ve realized that as well. I read quite a few books a eyar, but since the pandemic I realized it’s really because I have 20mins each way of train time. While I’m at home I far more prefer to watch TV or listen to music. I guess I’m a reader of circumstance.