The Leap v2 and the older Leap v1 are great office chairs. Had them both in my previous offices. If you don't mind buying used office furniture, these were going for $300-$450 reupholstered pre-covid.

Our office is opening back up entirely voluntary with limited capacity and scheduling if needed.

Other than that, I've spent the last two months or so sprucing up my balcony, swept and mopped it, put up fake hedges for privacy, and re-arranged/cleaned the furniture.

Spending more outdoor time when the sun is out has been nice to not get cabin fever.

Stanley Park to reopen to cars, park board decides after hours-long meeting

It was fun while it lasted!

Our entire department has been fully electronic for years now and our director said we'll be one of the last groups of people back into the office. Our office is currently at max capacity, so there's absolutely zero chance that they can get everyone back in without breaking provincial orders on how to distance at work. At some point, they'll start to transition the ones that really need to be in office back in, but last I heard, that's not going to happen for at least another month or two. It wouldn't surprise me if my department is working from home for the rest of this year.

What they're doing right now is plexiglassing all the cubicles and every other one will be empty. The other issue is how they're going to get everyone into work from the lobby since each elevator can only safely hold 2 people at a time :lol

Best possible solution. One lane for cars, another for bikes. There really was no need for two car lanes for most of the year. Only on the busiest summer weekends could it be an issue.

Or for the midnight tofu delivery

Our office at least this location is a pretty small team so it's pretty easy to social distance. My biggest concern is the shared kitchen/bathrooms and touching door handles.

I can have people in my office and still maintain 6', I don't think I could do cubicles with or without plexiglass I don't want people looking at my monitors what if I'm on revscene? haha

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As of next Monday I have been WFH for exactly 1 year now (I'm remote for a US based company). I still to this day just work off my couch or the kitchen table. Granted I'm not coding or anything that requires me to stare at a screen for hours upon hours. I've spent basically $0 on any home office upgrades (because I've got no space to have one, zing!) but I have spent some $$ upgrading my balcony so that it's habitable to work from in the summer months. So far no weird back issues or carpal tunnel syndrome. People spending $500+ on an office chair out of pocket are nuts IMO.

I think I have the same desk as you (or a similar one). You should look at getting a stand for those monitors, it frees up so much desk space.

Two things our body touches the most is our bed and our work chair (if you have an office-based job). Just like how we put good tires on our car, I'm okay with spending the money to have a good chair and a good mattress in order to have a comfortable resting time and working time.

Considering how both items last longer than most of our car tires, what's $500?

Agreed. If it is something you are using a lot in a given day, it's worthwhile to invest to.

You never know until you try a quality chair. In my office they're all Herman millers, they are all 11 years old and have been sat on by hundreds of people daily with zero regard. Only 1 single chair has ever broke and all the rest are going strong.

CivicBlues' office chairs. Blue one is his.
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:lol I must have coilovers in my spine or something, I sat all day in nice ergonomic chairs when I was back at my old job in the office. Now I'm sitting on wooden dining table chairs with some padding and I feel exactly the same. Just get up and walk around every 30 mins. Again, not saying this is for everyone and maybe this will eventually catch up to me who knows.

I been eyeing a proper chair for a while. After reading this thread I am going to pull the trigger for two.
And then a top of the line for my new office. If I have got TE37RT and Advan GT's for my GTR. I need the equivalent for my ass.

Water cooler gossip is what I miss the most; you share insights from other companies which you don't get anywhere when you sit at home via zoom.

I'll miss all the free catered food into the office and hot co-workers to look at.

$1000 chairs versus my $50 dollar chair at home.. meh...

Lastly, open concept office has always sucked, how the F am I able to yell at someone without someone overhearing me is always beyond me. Stupidest concept ever.

post a pic! I saw a brief balcony reno the other day on FB that got me thinking what to do with my space

Reminds me of my last company I worked over 8 years for. We moved to a newly renovated office when after I few months I joined, so they gutted out the new space and redesigned it. Boss thought it would be a great idea to get rid of cubicle dividers, now they really fuck themselves in the ass with Covid. Boss didn't like how old office the cubicle dividers were blocking his vision of seeing what people were doing when he walked by. Literally nothing dividing the space, pretty much open.

^Feels like you're in a freaking portable in high school and we have to do group projects... super loud.

wrong thread

lolol... soooo a internet cafe~~~ lololol

this was mentioned in the RE thread briefly

'Canadians working from home permanently should expect salary changes'

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi...alary-changes/

tl;dr getting paid less for the same roles & responsibilities suck, but now that it's remote, anyone who can speak english with the same skill set and internet connection is fair game so competition just shot up

That's fair, I honestly don't have a problem with it. Now if he said everyone at home is taking a paycut because you no longer have to commute or something along those lines I'd be like that's BS.

I'm still trying to figure out how to approach it moving forward, typically people in my role do not work from home unless they are contractors I'm an employee. That said I was more productive at home and I enjoyed it, I'd like to do it sometimes not sure if that's 1 or 2 days a week or what but I'm trying to figure out what would be best and then I'll figure out a way to bring it up to the owner of the company in a way that's bringing it up without really asking to get the seed planted because I know if I go to my manager from the jump he'll shoot me down, I've asked in the past before covid and he brushed me off.

Exactly, what if I lose it and throw something at the wall, put me in an open office and it's totally a safety issue.

I'm half joking. :)

There are some flaws in the notion of lowering employee salaries based on where they live.

I wouldn't get so riled up about it (yet.) The jobs at Facebook typically are within the domains of software development, marketing, data scientists etc. A lot of these jobs are high in demand, and good talent often comes at a cost, like most things in life. Sure, you can have an employee live out in Boise, Idaho, or Lac La Biche, or Selkirk, Manitoba, but if you have good talent that you can't afford to lose, do you keep them by paying them less? Someone else will be ready with a juicy offer for them. Trump's politics and economic policies don't make it easy to hire foreign nationals on H1-B visas anymore. Other than to delve into the realm of third-party economics, or an outsourcing engagement in BRICS countries, it doesn't necessarily work. And do you really want to hire Russian software developers? :D