Last Thursday, I packed up my office and said goodbye to it. Not to the job, mind you, just to my office and the building I worked it for seven years before the pandemic sent us all home. My company has decided to go full-time remote. We'll still maintain part of the building for occasional in-person meetings, but no one will have offices and almost all work will happen remotely. I think this is an excellent decision - the majority of my coworkers are really excited about permanently working remotely, and some of them are already planning to move to other states. We've also been able to hire new people that would never have considered moving to DC.
For me, it is bittersweet. My job is mainly meetings, and doing them all by Zoom isn't easy. I also quite enjoyed the location - a building surrounded by woods, but near a metro station - and I had chosen my house so I was within a bicycle commute. However, I am by nature a positive person, so I'll enjoy the view of the my cottage garden that my new office (i.e. my living room) affords, and the opportunity to cook a proper lunch on the stove instead of the microwave most days.
