1. Commute as part of working hours.
2. Reliable public transit, with the monthly pass paid by work.
3. Salary increase of at least 15%.

I feel all of these are relatively realistic and achievable by my workplace except for reliable public transit which is out of their hands. Thankfully they’re still remote first though there have been a few indications that this might change.

• 200k min salary (I’m currently paid 5 figures)
• 4 hour workdays
• 4 day workweek

And this is the single most important piece

let me go home when I’m done with my work

1. 4 day work week
2. 6 hour work day
3. 120k min salary
4. Lunch provided
5. Home cleaning service provided though benefit plan
6. I would need an office (no cube/open concept)
7. Casual dress code

I never really left the office. I had a 6 week stint working from home and then we were recalled. I’m in public safety so we were directly involved in the pandemic response.

Nothing. Quality of life of working from home cannot be replicated. Or the office would have to be in my street, which is pretty unrealistic

Honestly, a much much higher salary. There are lots of things I’m going to have to deal with if I were to go back to the office; namely heavy traffic, transportation expenses, added stress, clothes (I mean, I’d have to use office-appropriate clothes whereas nowadays I have to be presentable only when I have meetings), food, waking up and preparing earlier than usual (sometimes up to 3 hours earlier!) and getting home late which gives me less free time, etc.

They’re going to have to offer a really lucrative salary for me to even consider returning to the office.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I work as an IT guy for a small business (6 people total) and I honestly prefer working in the office:

• it’s easier to focus, I’m much more effective than when doing work at home, despite 95% of my work being possible to be done remotely
• I like most of the 5 people I work with
• I prefer separating life and work: I go to the office, do the work, go home and don’t think about it until the next time I’m over there. I wouldn’t like to associate my apartment with the mundane tasks I sometimes have to do for work

Also the commute isn’t bad because I live in a well-connected district in a European capital. It’s a 12 minute door-to-door bus ride for me, I don’t even bother driving.

Wait you guys are allowed to work remote full time?

• More money
• A very short commute (like 10-15 minutes walking max)
• A shorter working day, like 6 hours.

Compensation for the time and cost of commuting back and forth, paid meal, free coffee and snacks, and additional sick days from using public transport and ultimately catching more sicknesses.

And even then, it doesn’t give me back the extra time I can spend with my kids.

Not responding to e-mail when i clock out

Absolutely nothing. No amount of money or threats or “perks”. I work in software and my entire career has been built on flexible, mostly-remote work; particularly creating & leading remote, geographically distributed teams. I get the best talent no matter where they are, and use tools like Slack to work seamlessly in real-time and asynchronously across many disparate time zones. This wasn’t some new thing for me when COVID hit, this is how I’ve operated for more than 20 years.

I don’t mind going places for specific purposes: visiting clients, classified/sensitive discussions that can’t be transmitted, on-site work (like installations, research, etc), or team-building events like lunches, dinners, etc… but under no circumstances will I waste my time commuting to some specific ”office” daily just because. I am an efficiency expert and I will not tolerate having my time or my teams time wasted by incompetent, out-of-touch multi-millionaires that don’t realize the 80s ended 30 years ago.

The office being within a 30 second walk of my home

32 hr work week, a dedicated office with a door and all my Mac peripherals, a big pay increase, and benefits to cover child care.

Nice try, Susan from HR!