I never looked at it that way before, but now that I've been working from home for a year I can't not see it. If I have to go back to the office, I'll lose nearly two hours of my life in commute. Two hours I've used in the past year to finally get a normal sleeping pattern with appropriate hours and to add some joy to my life by actually having time for some of my favorite pastimes. The idea of losing it again...I'm not sure I'd be able to accept that. Anybody else feels similarly?
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They tell us the time it works have taken to get from one shop to another was about 30-45 minutes so now they’ve added one e yea inspection into that time slot working from home and demand impossible daily production numbers or they tell us we’re too slow . Crazy . Try doing 8 supplements a day sifting through 50 pictures sent by shops expecting a $15,000 supplement . Impossible. Allstate is taking our cars away and telling us to tell shops that if they want the business they’re going to send us pictures or do virtual assist and we still get the estimates wrong so there’s about 6-8 supplements per car inspection driving up cycle repair times and rentals. We’d rather be in the field .
90 minutes each way on the train, 10-20 minute walk to and from train to the Mart, and a 10 minute drive to and from the train.
Basically 3.6 hours per day or 18 hours per week.
45 minutes each way for me. Tried to make the time productive with podcasts and audiobooks, but that’s 7.5 hours a week, 30+ hours a month, 390 hours over a year - that’s two weeks a year in my car, sitting on my a–, commuting. What a waste of time.
I'm a Field Appraiaer and want to go back on the road like Appraisers for 90% of other companies. I can't do the same type of work from home. I rarely even get claims in my state. They make it sound like its all about our safety. I doubt it so apparently every other company doesn't care about their Field Appraiser's safety. More likely they want to categorize people as work at home employees to lay off more easily. That combined with impossible to consistently meet in a 40 hour week added matrix.
Driving to work with a long commute s—s. Traffic, stopping at a store, weather. Totally understand what you’re saying and having that time back is great. Anyone disagreeing with having travel time backed out of a daily routine isn’t awesome, must have lived 10 min from the job. Enjoy!
I agree with you OP. I’m spoiled working from home and I too have more time in my day to take Care of things quicker than I used to. We wouldn’t know what it feels like to work from home had the pandemic not happened. I’m grateful and don’t need the structure of being in an office building to do my job.
If not for the pandemic forcing Allstate's (and most other companies) hands you would still be sloughing into the office each day. It is good that you made out personally from the work from home but under normal circumstances nothing would have changed and you would really be out nothing if you had to go back into the office. Also if you needed work from home to better your life in such a way then you are likely the type if person that needs the structure of an office.
In short you would lose no hours.
To each its own. Personally for me I'm looking forward to hybrid and coming in 2 or 3 days a week and home the others for balance.