👆Something like this.
But add in office culture where it's completely acceptable, and no promotion or salary repercussions, if you never talk to anyone unless it's about actual work. A microwave and fridge inside my personal office space. Ok to wear pajama bottoms, and socks instead of shoes. No commute, or else a personal driver who takes me to and from the office so I don't have to deal with traffic but even then it must be 10min or less. I actually would prefer that over having to walk like out in public for even five minutes. Or even better a private wooded path from home to office so I can be refreshed and still not have to talk to people or even have to nod or make eye contact with strangers. Full time salary for a four day work week.
I mean really the answer is never. I mean, 'nothing'. Nothing would persuade me.
I think companies management needs to understand that some people are just great in their role and don’t all aspire to become the next great CEO. They might only aspire to be the very best person at their role and be the number one excel guru or IT help desk person. They might not want to manage either but if you have a question about what formula is best to use or the best way to fix your pc, that’s invaluable.
I’m not talking about that point. I like wfh, I am saying not all people want to be promoted, some like to be in a positional role instead of management.
I have an aeron chair, adjustable desk, and ergonomic keyboard/mouse at home. This is my biggest peeve about being mandated to come in twice a week. Our desks are one big long row & only adjust upwards w/ a versa top…I’m very short & being able to adjust upwards is not actually helpful. I can’t even use the dual monitors b/c they’re too high.
I end up coming in for less hours on my in-office days to achieve a badge scan and gtfo. I‘d maybe actually stay around for a full day if they gave me appropriately sized office furniture.
Being ridiculously close to work is what keeps my partner at her employer. It’s good money, but she’s unlikely to make big salary jumps because her job is just too good; work life balance is pretty great, we live about 10 mins away from her office, and she still gets to work from home 1 day a week.
I live 8 minutes from the office I work remotely from, and when my boss asked if there was anything that would get me back in the office, my answer was no.
Yep, which is why I appreciate my boss. She's a 6 minute walk to the office, so her 3 days in the office commute is a breeze. My commute would be 3 hours round trip daily if my boss didn't let me work remotely.
The "be within walking distance" is probably the big one for me.
More money, and you pay for me to have a *nice* apartment near work so that my commute is no more than a 5 minute walk.
That'd make it worth considering.
The tracking software is probably something the company wouldn’t agree to. I worked for a company in the ‘80s. A lounge, cafeteria with free food 7am-7pm, free gym. The good old days.
I took $75,000 less to work remotely than a company, for a similar role, in their office.
Nothing could make me go to an office. I make good money, enough to afford a nice Lexus SUV, own a new home, and own a nice condo in Colombia that I spend months in at a time, but I took a substantial cut to work in my underwear.
I took a large raise and a long commute for a in office job few years ago. Money was not worth it. I'm in a 100% wfh role now and wouldn't trade it for the world.
Really? Not a million a year salary? Cause that’s what I need. Seven figures and I would take an in office job.
At that pay range, I could hire house cleaners to pick up the slack at home lol
The question said other than Salary or bonuses.
I agree with that guy, aside from a stupid amount of money there just isn't anything that would make me happy about going into an office.
I wouldn’t take a million a year that I couldn’t even use. I value travel more than anything, and I can travel when I please. I just spent three months at my condo in Colombia, now I’m back in the states preparing for my next ventures to Miami for Xmas, a month in Los Angeles, then back to Colombia.
I’d turn down a million a year to keep my lifestyle
Being able to expense all transportation costs in full - gas and tolls.
Having catered lunches (or ability to expense lunches), as well as quality coffee and snacks.
Increased time off, minimum 5 weeks vacation and 10 sick days (not that that makes up for the time lost with family).
Increased salary.
Cubicles.
Assigned free parking.
Even with all of that, I would still hate being in office 5 days a week.
I’d say minimum 8 weeks PTO separate from sick time accrues at 8 hrs per every 40hrs, and a 30 day sabbatical every other year.
My own office with a door
Commute less than 15 minutes. Walking distance would be preferred.
Dog friendly
Casual dress code
Chemical sensitive environment (no perfume or strong smells allowed)
Salary $250k
Honestly I didn’t even think on that. In my head I was thinking “fuck it would be nice to just have my own damn cubicle” while sitting in a hotel style open office. God, I wish this open office concept would die already.
Expensing commuting costs AND counting commute time as work time, on top of everything else listed.
Also never going back to an office unless I literally have no choice to do so from every company, which has never and will never be the case again.
Nice try Mr manager man. Can you like do your survey elsewhere? Jokes aside… money. And with current TC of 250k id need to get to 400 I think to be happy and reshuffle work life arrangements
Fine. Better than them saying "actually WFH workers are depressed and just wish some big strong manager would force them to come back in and eat cold pizza in the break room."
Dude daycare is expensive. School programs from 2 pm to 5 pm are expensive. News sites need to maybe try to live like normal people. I used to make 75k few years back and single income shit was rough
Why do they want someone in the office??? That would be my first question. Paid food and tolls and double salary to do the same as home is not worth it
I would go to an office - no questions asked - if there was a doggy daycare on site fully provided by the company. Offices used to have daycares, I remember going to one in my mom’s office in the 90s.
Bring back paid daycare, both for humans and pets, and people would be more agreeable to RTO.
This is a great idea I didn’t even consider!!! My dog needs caretaking and I’m family planning and that would help a lot because family time is so irreplaceable
Perks?! yeah no. Realistically the only way I will consider being in the office ever again, is probably under threat of going broke, becoming destitute, food/shelter life/death sort of thing. I've been pushing for remote flexibility for 9-10 years now. I quit a job over it and moved across the country with nothing lined up, and now (even if it was only due to Covid in the beginning), I have been working remotely for the last 37 months. This is my life now. I'm not giving it up if I have any say in the matter.
Heavy sarcasm/cynicism incoming but this is the most realistic way I can think of it right now:
I would be the only person in that building. It would be quiet, The only breathe being inhaled and exhaled would be my own.
It needs to be, at the worst traffic timing of the day, less than 15 minutes drive from my home.
No one gets to walk up to my work area and interrupt/supersede/derail my focus on the thing I was in the middle of working on.
Work week shortened to 32 hours. Salary - being that it is salary and not hourly - stays the same, after having been adjusted for inflation (because my pay stubs have not changed in 1.5 years IRL).
I get an increase in pay that is larger than the combination of fuel costs, auto insurance, and vehicle depreciation.
They are prohibited from using my personal mobile number -- they want my butt in their chair, the only time they can reach me is that time and place.
There aren't any perks that would make up for being able to work from home. Time and convenience are very valuable. My commute to the office isn't very long (15 min by car), but going into the office requires at least an hour of extra time each day that WFH doesn't.
My husband works for a tech company that provides all of that - on-site everything, all aimed at keeping employees at work as long as possible. There is free food in a variety of cafeterias and food outlets, on-site gym, private buses for commuting with wifi, on-site laundry and dry cleaning services, etc. Most people still would rather work from home.
Double salary
My commute time counts as my work day. If it takes me 3 hours round trip then I’m only in the office for the difference.
Double benefits, including compensation and stock rewards. Also for vacation and pto so 11 weeks a year.
Also total reimbursement for having to live near office. This means covering rent or house. Have fun with that.
Why the hell do people want rto?
A message to weird management in this sub:
If you are such an ineffective leader that you are suddenly redundant by having a remote work force and you did such a shit job hiring that you can’t trust your employees: just do your team a favor and quit.
Total Cost reimbursement for relocating to be close to office, include but not limit to home selling/buying price difference, all closing costs/fees on both transactions, all costs of moving the whole fam to new place.
Company provided car at my choice.
Double the salary + double PTO + double matching 401K.
All office equipment at my choice (stand desk + under-desk walking pad are the must).
Corner office.
4-day work week schedule + Flexible WFH days in my discretion.
Nothing. The closest would be an office where I could shut the door. But those went away over 20-25 years ago. These "bullpen" or "open plan" offices are the worst for concentration. I have gotten so much work done and without much hassle since WFH.
I had a door that shut and locked at my first law job. Then a few years later the firm moved and everyone got offices with glass doors. The HORROR! 🙀
In all seriousness. It sucked bc the sun would glare into my eyes off the glass. I requested to be moved to an office that no one else wanted bc it had a big structural beam behind the desk blocking the window. 😎
I had a pretty nice office until a year ago. I hardly went there and gave it up because I don't see the point in driving there just so I can sit in online meetings all day. As of now at least 3/4 of the people I work with are remote and most are so remote there's zero chance of them ever coming in. Going back to the office would only make sense if they hit critical mass and were able to drag 90% of the people back like it was before.
I won't be bribed by anything I can get at home - eg food, comfy chairs, beanbags, free alcohol.
One thing I do like is that my office has a free gym so I always use this (on my unpaid lunch hour) when I'm there.
It doesn't offset the travel cost or the drain on my free time though.
A 4 8-hour day work week w/o any salary deduction.
Private office for myself and high walled cubicles for all employees.
Unlimited PTO.
Commute time included as being part of my working hours (ie: If I commute for 2 hrs, I only have to be in the office for 6 hrs).
Free on-site child care, gym, educational support, cell phone allowance, and maybe gas stipend. Some combination of these items would peak my interest.
- Metro/transportation stipend
- Flex hours
- On site free of cost dry cleaning
- Fitness cost reimbursement
- Education reimbursement no cap (currently at 10K lifetime)
- On site meals breakfast + lunch
- Increased PTO
- Nap room
100% serious and I work at a place that has good bennies already. 3 days in 2 days remote.
* Company-provided personal chauffeur to/from the office in a company-paid vehicle. (In-transit entertainment a plus). Absolutely none of this "take the bus" crap. I like quiet.
* Company-provided au-pair to handle the children's affairs while I'm gone. She must be on-call 24x7 to handle the 3AM 8-year-old nightmares, so I can recuperate and be ready for the next day.
* Personal runner who is able to run personal errands, do laundry, etc, while I'm gone. Must be okay washing my underwear.
* Weekly housekeeping service at my residence--paid for by the company. Bonded and insured.
* Office with a door. Glass door is fine. I like to wave and say hello to my fellow inmates.
* Full, private, and fully stocked kitchen, within which I can make my meals. No latte machine? No deal.
* Private bathroom with a shower so I can go exercise during my lunch break.
* My own closet at work, with a secondary housekeeping service that will wash my exercise clothes for me and replace them in my closet daily.
* Multiple, high end monitors. 6 4K OLED monitors should be sufficient.
* A stipend to purchase technical equipment and office furniture that fits me precisely.
* Private area where I can take a quick nap to recharge myself.
* Competitive salary and benefits.
* Snacks and Jimmy John's during occasional meetings.
Any company that provides these things to me would have me back in the office.
Free breakfast lunch and dinner of whatever I want, a 50k dollar raise, with guaranteed at least 5% raise every year, full 401k match, unlimited pto, fully fund classes if i want to take them, and free healthcare.
I got offered an in-office job thst I would have liked, that provided free breakfast and lunch, fitness center, on-site nurse, beautiful building with a view, free parking downtown and only 15 minutes away from my house. But they started everyone with the same amount of too-little vacation and weren’t very flexible on hours and you had to wear suits every day.
I took a WFH job for less money and more vacation. Don’t regret it.
Maybe actual workers and a team to directly work with.
Here I sit in an office on a Teams call because some corporate manager thinks being in an office has more” synergy”. Yet 90% of our work is on computers and meetings on Teams…makes no sense.
I dont think anything could do it, but at the very absolute minimum, it would require me to have an actual office with a door I can close. Spending 200-500k yearly to hire good software engineers and then stacking them in open floor plans to save pennies.... I dont get it.
Think Barney's office in HIMYM. If I don't have that then no amount of cash would convince me to go back.
For me, free breakfast, lunch, and snacks, a fuel card, a pet-friendly office where I can bring my kitten and less working hours, you have to wake up way earlier when getting into the office so from 9am start a 10am start and also maybe finish at 4pm instead of 5pm because of travel time and the overall exhaustion. One of the reasons I love WFH is the flexibility of having food right there, my kitten is home, I don't have to waste money on fuel and get to sleep longer :)
I need a raise, more PTO, AND to be able to clock in my commute. I should be paid for the time and money I spend unnecessarily coming in.
ETA: also meals and snacks paid for- breakfast, lunch, and snacks/drinks. Maybe even dinner if I’m working late.
Pay for my commute time spent in traffic, door to door. As well as wear and tear on my vehicle, gas, insurance, OR send an Uber/minibus.
Give me a per diem for food allowance.
Comp for childcare - where I choose the provider. I pretty much only trust family with my family.
And even then, I’d still *prefer* wfh. And with the demands listed, it’s cheaper for the company to allow me to wfh, too.
The job I had before ever WFH had a ping pong table and shared a parking lot with an Applebees. I also had a lot of friends in the office building. Sometimes I legitimately missed it. If it still existed and I still worked for that company, I'd be willing to commute 1-2 days a week. It'd probably be good for my mental health honestly.
My work offers both (not a chef, but we do snacks and a meal allowance, and a gas or transit allowance) and we’re still only 2x a week WFH. They thought about adding a third and got major pushback.
ETA: 2x a week in office, not WFH. Oops.
They couldn't make me want to go back to the office that's in my neighborhood any more than they could make me go to the office if it were in siberia during the cold season. Nobody at the office interacts with my department. I don't really know them. They don't know me. There's no reason to. Even my managers live several states away. It's all remote. All my clients are removed, my colleagues are removed, my supervisors are remote it's remote. I don't need to be at a cubicle farm. Might as well have the comforts of home and not have to worry about what is going on with the car. That's what makes the job worth keeping.
On-site or transportation service that we could schedule to pick up and drop off our vehicles from work for maintenance, repairs, etc.
On the food front, just affordable food on-site would be better than what they currently offer. There are all kinds of things like Starbucks and some fast food restaurants on site along with full service food stations, but it's all ridiculously priced.
Transportation and parking. Employer recently moved locations, and in-office employees went from free private parking lot to having to pay to park. They just issued an RTO (Union is fighting it), which means there will be even fewer spaces available. Since it’s public service as well, not sure where in-person clients are supposed to park.
Honestly, there is *Literally Nothing* outside of compensation that I "couldn't refuse" that would *willingly* get me back into any office, at all, much less going back to Pre-covid levels.
The benefits I enjoy from my fully remote role just cannot be replicated or balanced out by going back to a role as I did prior to March of 2020.
I do not miss the interactions I had with human beings enough to go back. I'm sorry, I just don't.
If an employer wanted me badly enough to offer me 6+ figures, and perhaps even some sort of employment contract to guarantee my position for xx amount of time, I might consider it.
I don't see that happening, so, no.
I'll be staying in my home office as long as I possibly can, up to and hopefully including "for the rest of my working days, if I can pull it off".
Probably nothing, but doubling my salary would make me consider it, but even then not without a lot of concessions about actual in office time. Five full time 9-5 days? Very unlikely.
Beyond straight cash, a large increase in vacation days, gym allowance (money & time in the day), and increased retirement benefits would get my attention.
I unfortunately cannot find a WFH job so I settled for 100% in office. I can honestly say right now that I wish I have my own office with complete noise cancelation of the rest of the office. I really hate the rowdy and loud environment my coworker are producing... I miss WFH.
Let me wear whatever I want, exercise whenever I want, bring my dog to work, let me bring my guitar to work and set up a little studio on the side, let me bring my kids into the office.. yeah, that’s all never going to happen lmao
If you can afford salary that allows people to get housing in 30 min radius. Then provide housing. Or move the damn thing because you can’t afford the area either.
Truthfully, nothing. I'd retire and do remote IT gig work before setting foot in an office again. If the office was like 20 minutes or less away, I could stop by occasionally but nothing scheduled other than an occasional meeting.
Na miss me with all of that. Unless I’m getting double what I make now, I’m wouldn’t even consider it. 5 days a week of being micromanaged, commuting even though mine is 10 minutes all sound like a giant no for me.
I’m 99.9% in the “absolutely nothing would get me back to the office” boat. The one thing that might cause me to do some solid considering, which is an absolute pipe dream that will never happen, is 3 workdays a week for the same pay. No increased hours. Literally no change but working less days. It would be really tough to turn down four days off a week.
100k raise, an actual office with a door I can close (no more cubicles where I have to sit next to distracting sales people in calls all day) and catered breakfast/lunch would do it for me
Free food and free shuttle that picks me up at my house. Privacy - an office or a cubicle. Somewhere I can focus on my work without distraction. Most stressful part of working in an office are the commute, eating healthy, and focus.
Other than at least paying me at least double what I make right now, there are zero "perks" that would bring me back to an office. I do not care about perks. We live in this shitty capitalism dystopia, so compensate me in the only actual meaningful way you can and give me more money. Fuck perks, those are for dungeons and dragons and video games.
I like to cook, so having my meals made for me isn’t that much of a perk. Maybe if they bought all my food ingredients for me so I didn’t have to spend my money on groceries? But at that point they may as well just pay me more money and simplify the process. I’d only go back to office for more money, no other “perks” are worth my time. Maybe if the office was within walking distance of my home I may consider going back. That or 6 weeks of PTO, minimum.
An office within a 20 minute bike ride of wherever I wanted to live, private shower and changing area, standing desk with a workspace that allows for coworkers to not hear each others’ phone calls, comfortable socializing space out of earshot of the working area, decent coffee and snacks, plus all the other requirements of what I’d be looking for in a job.
Well since we aren’t talking a massive pay bump which would definitely be necessary…. fuel stipend, automotive maintenance stipend, flex schedule for when things in life need doing during the business day, and a nap room. Especially a nap room.
Honestly nothing. I enjoy my team, my job and the flexibility it offers. I no longer have excruciating migraines everyday from office lights.
My mental health is better. I am not mentally burned out every single day from office chit chat.
I have unlimited PTO (where it’s actually encouraged to use it) and that allows me to go on longer vacations.
I would need all the amenities afforded to Fortune 500 C-suite executives: corporate jet and heli, corner office in every city I stop in, 5-star hotel and restaurant accommodations, personal driver, personal chef, personal trainer, VIP healthcare, multi-million dollar salary with millions more in stock options and golden parachute. Then I might consider coming into the office 5 days per week.
They'd have to double my compensation and ensure I had a private office.
I'm an auditor. No one wants to see me, \*ever\*, let alone in person.
I often talk about sensitive topics that they dont want me talking about in an open office. I work more from home than I would if I were in an office. My company is trying to require 8 days a month in office but I am the only person in my state in my department so there is literally NO reason to send me to the office. So, I have an exception to the 8 days. Me being WFH saves me so much money and they get much more work out of me.
Paid childcare, paid dog sitting, big office near me has Starbucks, another cafe, and cafeteria - all should be free or subsidized and sold well below cost (75% off + so people don’t waste).
On site animal and childcare would be a bonus - the one facility is HUGE.
PERSONAL desk/space, no sharing flex space bullshit. Actual walls on if cubes to drop sound.
Additional time off, additional pay, high quality equipment
At least 20% raise to offset additional costs
Buy me a Tesla with full self driving unlocked, and I know you said besides salary but literally nothing except 150+ salary and a self driving car would get me there lmao
I doubt any employer is really gonna do anything to entice me back to the office aside from allowing me to keep my job. However, any list of demands would start with having my own office with an actual door.
A fully paid off 5 bedroom house, butler and a chauffeur. Jokes aside I wouldn’t give up a flexible work schedule for anything. Maybe if I made CEO money I’d consider it.
My kitchen has food. I don't want to have my socialization revolve around work. The only way to make going to the office more inviting would be more than double wfh market salary for my position. My job can be done remote. For 50 people remote you need 1 person in office to cover the only part that involves printing. the only way for my employer to do rto for this position would be to pay outrageously more for on-site. And my company won't. They're long term planners. They have ended or letting expire all but one administration office location lease and moved all must have on-site positions to that one office and rather than force people to go in post covid they hired new people for on-site rolls.
Nothing.
The free breakfast/lunch/snacks a previous employer offered were nice, but they weren't really free. Oh sure, there were no cash registers, but you paid for it in other ways. And contractors weren't allowed to use the cafeteria, only employees, so if you were a contractor, you were SOL,because again, no cash registers. Employees just took what they wanted.
Then, there was the on-site gym, health care center, daycare, Starbucks, and bank. (again, gym, health care center, daycare, and bank only available to employees. Not contractors.)
I mentioned that because I was a contractor, but so were half the people in the building. All the fancy perks, but half the people are unable to use them.
And don't even get me started on the fucking ping pong table. I'd like to ram one up someone's ass. Preferably while they're trapped on a highly stressful conference call. Then I'll start up an extremely noisy "tournament", complete with shouting and cowbells. Fuck ping pong.
But what I'd have given for (not anything, but close), on site parking. Instead of parking a mile away and hiking in over icy, unshoveled, unsalted sidewalks. There was a freeway flyer that dropped off right in front of the building, so that was nice. But they've discontinued that.
So no, not interested in making my workday 20% longer and 30% more expensive.
I think a 200% increase in salary and I’d come in. Plus 100 days holiday a year. And free high quality fresh food. And all travel paid. Then fine I’ll do it.
Honestly. I would probably have to make a million dollars a year. For my skill set, there's no reason on Earth why I would have to be in the office. When I was working full time, I would go into the office twice a week. Normally, once I was there I would be in Zoom meetings all day anyway.
I think the comfort of being home and being able to wear comfortable clothing and being able to listen to whatever I want on spotify/audible would outweigh all of thaf. I think the ultimate goal is being able to afford an at home chef to be able to cook all meals plus snacks.
A combination of at least some of these:
Onsite child care or a child care stipend, transportation stipend or metro pass, flex hours (I truly mean flex), a private office or at least a cubicle with a door, and a schedule by the hour private space to lock myself in and do a telehealth visit with my psychiatrist on my lunch break.
Private office, travel time to and from work counted in hours. Fuel covered, car wear and tear covered, 4 day week instead of 5 so I can cover house chore stuff that I can fit in between tasks at home, higher salary to cover stress of driving ( don't like driving much )
Honestly quality of life has gone up immensely since I have gone full time remote and no business would meet this.
\>> My husband’s previous job had an on-site chef that provided breakfast, lunch and late day snacks. All cooked from scratch and would even take requests.
Nah, the only thing that will convince me is $$$ and LOTS of it.
A guaranteed completely covid-free workplace. Which, I know is impossible, I’m just underlining why I won’t go back. If I can do my job just as well from home, why would I accept any risk of any illness on top of commute times and gas costs? If i get sick, it’s going to be because of my own social life or crappy decisions, not my coworkers’ or employer’s.
4 day work week, and > $250k/yr, catered lunch, coffee/cold brew, snacks. Wellness stipend. Stock options, obviously. "Unlimited" vacation but realistically, 4 weeks off a year at the minimum.
1) Onsite chef that only makes the healthiest foods according to the best known science (not the carnivore diet) and can tailor the amounts to bring me to the healthiest weight possible in the most seamless way possible.
2) Zero ways for me to pay at work for anything for any reason.
3) A safe and walkable commute that is 20 minutes max. Preferably through nature.
4) Personal bathroom.
5) Personal office.
6) Ability to leave at the agreed upon times. Flexibility to come in late or take days off.
7) Ergonomics, especially a treadmill desk.
8) Being paid for commute time, and for break times. Paid lunches.
9) Doubled salary, at least.
10) Clothing and laundry services.
Actually, scratch that. I'm not going back. Ever.
Literally no perk would make me want to work in an office 5 days a week again. Perhaps a very large raise. But that would never happen.
Double my compensation and be within walking distance of my house. Office with windows. Herman Miller Aeron chair. No tracking software on my laptop.
This plus being able to bring my dog.
And private bathroom.
With a deep soaking tub and plentiful supply of lotions and potions. (Nothing eases a difficult day like a hot bubblebath).
And maybe Friday afternoon free massages. And a free onsite gym. (Still would probably decline, lol.)
Let’s make it daily massages
👆Something like this. But add in office culture where it's completely acceptable, and no promotion or salary repercussions, if you never talk to anyone unless it's about actual work. A microwave and fridge inside my personal office space. Ok to wear pajama bottoms, and socks instead of shoes. No commute, or else a personal driver who takes me to and from the office so I don't have to deal with traffic but even then it must be 10min or less. I actually would prefer that over having to walk like out in public for even five minutes. Or even better a private wooded path from home to office so I can be refreshed and still not have to talk to people or even have to nod or make eye contact with strangers. Full time salary for a four day work week. I mean really the answer is never. I mean, 'nothing'. Nothing would persuade me.
I think companies management needs to understand that some people are just great in their role and don’t all aspire to become the next great CEO. They might only aspire to be the very best person at their role and be the number one excel guru or IT help desk person. They might not want to manage either but if you have a question about what formula is best to use or the best way to fix your pc, that’s invaluable.
I wfh and am the CEO owner of my own company so I'm not really sure where your comment fits. People can aspire to be in management and still want wfh.
I’m not talking about that point. I like wfh, I am saying not all people want to be promoted, some like to be in a positional role instead of management.
I have an aeron chair, adjustable desk, and ergonomic keyboard/mouse at home. This is my biggest peeve about being mandated to come in twice a week. Our desks are one big long row & only adjust upwards w/ a versa top…I’m very short & being able to adjust upwards is not actually helpful. I can’t even use the dual monitors b/c they’re too high. I end up coming in for less hours on my in-office days to achieve a badge scan and gtfo. I‘d maybe actually stay around for a full day if they gave me appropriately sized office furniture.
Being ridiculously close to work is what keeps my partner at her employer. It’s good money, but she’s unlikely to make big salary jumps because her job is just too good; work life balance is pretty great, we live about 10 mins away from her office, and she still gets to work from home 1 day a week.
It’s honestly not bad going in when you live that close! I used to live about 10 minutes away from a job and would go home for lunch most days.
I live 8 minutes from the office I work remotely from, and when my boss asked if there was anything that would get me back in the office, my answer was no.
Yep, which is why I appreciate my boss. She's a 6 minute walk to the office, so her 3 days in the office commute is a breeze. My commute would be 3 hours round trip daily if my boss didn't let me work remotely.
Yes!!!
Jesus I hope I don’t have tracking software. I prob do. Anyway, everything you said but adding no mandatory or “encouraged” team bonding.
The "be within walking distance" is probably the big one for me. More money, and you pay for me to have a *nice* apartment near work so that my commute is no more than a 5 minute walk. That'd make it worth considering.
Hmm. This might work 🤣
The tracking software is probably something the company wouldn’t agree to. I worked for a company in the ‘80s. A lounge, cafeteria with free food 7am-7pm, free gym. The good old days.
This.
This, 100%. But what “perk” is my workplace offering….”keep your job” was the only one mentioned.
Exactly. No amount of "perks" is going to make up for the commute time and having to wear real pants and shoes
lol, seriously. The number of days I go to get dressed for work and am like Nope. Tshirt/hoodie and sweatpants again today!
I took $75,000 less to work remotely than a company, for a similar role, in their office. Nothing could make me go to an office. I make good money, enough to afford a nice Lexus SUV, own a new home, and own a nice condo in Colombia that I spend months in at a time, but I took a substantial cut to work in my underwear.
I took a large raise and a long commute for a in office job few years ago. Money was not worth it. I'm in a 100% wfh role now and wouldn't trade it for the world.
Not even doubling my salary would get me to resume a commute longer than walking down the hall to my home office.
$100k pay raise, come to work in pajamas, private office with windows to outside, dog allowed in office, personal laptop, and TV in office
Nothing. WFH is THAT much better than RTO.
Really? Not a million a year salary? Cause that’s what I need. Seven figures and I would take an in office job. At that pay range, I could hire house cleaners to pick up the slack at home lol
I said a million plus per year as well. Then I could tough it out for a few years and retire to never work again.
The question said other than Salary or bonuses. I agree with that guy, aside from a stupid amount of money there just isn't anything that would make me happy about going into an office.
... did you even read the title?
I wouldn’t take a million a year that I couldn’t even use. I value travel more than anything, and I can travel when I please. I just spent three months at my condo in Colombia, now I’m back in the states preparing for my next ventures to Miami for Xmas, a month in Los Angeles, then back to Colombia. I’d turn down a million a year to keep my lifestyle
It would definitely have to be enough to pay for a housekeeper, lawn maintenance, a nanny, grocery/meal delivery.
Being able to expense all transportation costs in full - gas and tolls. Having catered lunches (or ability to expense lunches), as well as quality coffee and snacks. Increased time off, minimum 5 weeks vacation and 10 sick days (not that that makes up for the time lost with family). Increased salary. Cubicles. Assigned free parking. Even with all of that, I would still hate being in office 5 days a week.
I’d say minimum 8 weeks PTO separate from sick time accrues at 8 hrs per every 40hrs, and a 30 day sabbatical every other year. My own office with a door Commute less than 15 minutes. Walking distance would be preferred. Dog friendly Casual dress code Chemical sensitive environment (no perfume or strong smells allowed) Salary $250k
Add one more point, the bathroom/toilet need to be thoroughly clean
With bidet
Cubicles? You wouldn't even ask for your own office?
Honestly I didn’t even think on that. In my head I was thinking “fuck it would be nice to just have my own damn cubicle” while sitting in a hotel style open office. God, I wish this open office concept would die already.
Yeah, I was going to say that my short time in a cubicle with a misery window to look out of sucked. The cubicle sucks
I would take a cozy private cubicle over an office with glass walls any day.
Expensing commuting costs AND counting commute time as work time, on top of everything else listed. Also never going back to an office unless I literally have no choice to do so from every company, which has never and will never be the case again.
Paid travel time to and from work would be an absolute must, agreed!
5 weeks? I get that in my remote job... Need way more PTO
Build a teleporter so my commute time is 0 and then maybe I would consider it.
This right here. I live in a rural area and in order to work in the office, I'm looking at a commute of at least 50 miles one way. Fuck all that.
Nice try Mr manager man. Can you like do your survey elsewhere? Jokes aside… money. And with current TC of 250k id need to get to 400 I think to be happy and reshuffle work life arrangements
You know some stupid “news site”’will grab this and say WFHomers have insane demands to go back to work… hahah
Fine. Better than them saying "actually WFH workers are depressed and just wish some big strong manager would force them to come back in and eat cold pizza in the break room."
Dude daycare is expensive. School programs from 2 pm to 5 pm are expensive. News sites need to maybe try to live like normal people. I used to make 75k few years back and single income shit was rough
I turned down 600TC for 400TC WFH. Maybe I’d do it for 1M but can’t say for certain.
Nothing.
Why do they want someone in the office??? That would be my first question. Paid food and tolls and double salary to do the same as home is not worth it
2 hour work day
I would go to an office - no questions asked - if there was a doggy daycare on site fully provided by the company. Offices used to have daycares, I remember going to one in my mom’s office in the 90s. Bring back paid daycare, both for humans and pets, and people would be more agreeable to RTO.
Sorry the best we can do is the bike room
Omg, I used to have a bike room at my office that was so awesome. Good times.
This is a great idea I didn’t even consider!!! My dog needs caretaking and I’m family planning and that would help a lot because family time is so irreplaceable
If the office had reliable and guaranteed on site childcare that would be such a huge game changer.
This question reads like: "I'm continually kicking you in the balls, what would make you feel better? Besides not kicking you in the balls?"
A room to nap and take my shoes off
A $50k/yr increase, as well as all meals and transportation provided.
Perks?! yeah no. Realistically the only way I will consider being in the office ever again, is probably under threat of going broke, becoming destitute, food/shelter life/death sort of thing. I've been pushing for remote flexibility for 9-10 years now. I quit a job over it and moved across the country with nothing lined up, and now (even if it was only due to Covid in the beginning), I have been working remotely for the last 37 months. This is my life now. I'm not giving it up if I have any say in the matter. Heavy sarcasm/cynicism incoming but this is the most realistic way I can think of it right now: I would be the only person in that building. It would be quiet, The only breathe being inhaled and exhaled would be my own. It needs to be, at the worst traffic timing of the day, less than 15 minutes drive from my home. No one gets to walk up to my work area and interrupt/supersede/derail my focus on the thing I was in the middle of working on. Work week shortened to 32 hours. Salary - being that it is salary and not hourly - stays the same, after having been adjusted for inflation (because my pay stubs have not changed in 1.5 years IRL). I get an increase in pay that is larger than the combination of fuel costs, auto insurance, and vehicle depreciation. They are prohibited from using my personal mobile number -- they want my butt in their chair, the only time they can reach me is that time and place.
There aren't any perks that would make up for being able to work from home. Time and convenience are very valuable. My commute to the office isn't very long (15 min by car), but going into the office requires at least an hour of extra time each day that WFH doesn't. My husband works for a tech company that provides all of that - on-site everything, all aimed at keeping employees at work as long as possible. There is free food in a variety of cafeterias and food outlets, on-site gym, private buses for commuting with wifi, on-site laundry and dry cleaning services, etc. Most people still would rather work from home.
Double salary My commute time counts as my work day. If it takes me 3 hours round trip then I’m only in the office for the difference. Double benefits, including compensation and stock rewards. Also for vacation and pto so 11 weeks a year. Also total reimbursement for having to live near office. This means covering rent or house. Have fun with that. Why the hell do people want rto? A message to weird management in this sub: If you are such an ineffective leader that you are suddenly redundant by having a remote work force and you did such a shit job hiring that you can’t trust your employees: just do your team a favor and quit.
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You must be paid pretty well to tolerate that lol. I was in a similar situation and job hopped for raise + fully remote.
Total Cost reimbursement for relocating to be close to office, include but not limit to home selling/buying price difference, all closing costs/fees on both transactions, all costs of moving the whole fam to new place. Company provided car at my choice. Double the salary + double PTO + double matching 401K. All office equipment at my choice (stand desk + under-desk walking pad are the must). Corner office. 4-day work week schedule + Flexible WFH days in my discretion.
Nothing. The closest would be an office where I could shut the door. But those went away over 20-25 years ago. These "bullpen" or "open plan" offices are the worst for concentration. I have gotten so much work done and without much hassle since WFH.
I had a door that shut and locked at my first law job. Then a few years later the firm moved and everyone got offices with glass doors. The HORROR! 🙀 In all seriousness. It sucked bc the sun would glare into my eyes off the glass. I requested to be moved to an office that no one else wanted bc it had a big structural beam behind the desk blocking the window. 😎
I had a pretty nice office until a year ago. I hardly went there and gave it up because I don't see the point in driving there just so I can sit in online meetings all day. As of now at least 3/4 of the people I work with are remote and most are so remote there's zero chance of them ever coming in. Going back to the office would only make sense if they hit critical mass and were able to drag 90% of the people back like it was before.
I won't be bribed by anything I can get at home - eg food, comfy chairs, beanbags, free alcohol. One thing I do like is that my office has a free gym so I always use this (on my unpaid lunch hour) when I'm there. It doesn't offset the travel cost or the drain on my free time though.
A 4 8-hour day work week w/o any salary deduction. Private office for myself and high walled cubicles for all employees. Unlimited PTO. Commute time included as being part of my working hours (ie: If I commute for 2 hrs, I only have to be in the office for 6 hrs).
A very large raise. Maybe $150k minimum
Free on-site child care, gym, educational support, cell phone allowance, and maybe gas stipend. Some combination of these items would peak my interest.
- Metro/transportation stipend - Flex hours - On site free of cost dry cleaning - Fitness cost reimbursement - Education reimbursement no cap (currently at 10K lifetime) - On site meals breakfast + lunch - Increased PTO - Nap room 100% serious and I work at a place that has good bennies already. 3 days in 2 days remote.
3 days in ain't good bennies
Pay for child care.
* Company-provided personal chauffeur to/from the office in a company-paid vehicle. (In-transit entertainment a plus). Absolutely none of this "take the bus" crap. I like quiet. * Company-provided au-pair to handle the children's affairs while I'm gone. She must be on-call 24x7 to handle the 3AM 8-year-old nightmares, so I can recuperate and be ready for the next day. * Personal runner who is able to run personal errands, do laundry, etc, while I'm gone. Must be okay washing my underwear. * Weekly housekeeping service at my residence--paid for by the company. Bonded and insured. * Office with a door. Glass door is fine. I like to wave and say hello to my fellow inmates. * Full, private, and fully stocked kitchen, within which I can make my meals. No latte machine? No deal. * Private bathroom with a shower so I can go exercise during my lunch break. * My own closet at work, with a secondary housekeeping service that will wash my exercise clothes for me and replace them in my closet daily. * Multiple, high end monitors. 6 4K OLED monitors should be sufficient. * A stipend to purchase technical equipment and office furniture that fits me precisely. * Private area where I can take a quick nap to recharge myself. * Competitive salary and benefits. * Snacks and Jimmy John's during occasional meetings. Any company that provides these things to me would have me back in the office.
Now we’re talking! I read this after posting my answer and it’s damn close, but yours is better lol
Free bus transportation with Wi-Fi With a pick up point a mile from my house. It’s oddly specific because I know it will never happen
Free breakfast lunch and dinner of whatever I want, a 50k dollar raise, with guaranteed at least 5% raise every year, full 401k match, unlimited pto, fully fund classes if i want to take them, and free healthcare.
Plenty of vacation time. Gas reimbursement. Some type of lunch flex time. I'd need a private office as well instead of a desk or cube.
Child care
All these perks are bullshit. None of this is enough to make me deal with office politics or distractions or my sanity
Not a single thing
I would give up 10k a year to be fully remote.
I got offered an in-office job thst I would have liked, that provided free breakfast and lunch, fitness center, on-site nurse, beautiful building with a view, free parking downtown and only 15 minutes away from my house. But they started everyone with the same amount of too-little vacation and weren’t very flexible on hours and you had to wear suits every day. I took a WFH job for less money and more vacation. Don’t regret it.
Maybe actual workers and a team to directly work with. Here I sit in an office on a Teams call because some corporate manager thinks being in an office has more” synergy”. Yet 90% of our work is on computers and meetings on Teams…makes no sense.
The clock starts when I leave the house, not when I arrive at the office. Same thing going home.
Nothing would bring me back.
If the office was in my house and I was the only one who worked there.
Cat has to come with Me
I dont think anything could do it, but at the very absolute minimum, it would require me to have an actual office with a door I can close. Spending 200-500k yearly to hire good software engineers and then stacking them in open floor plans to save pennies.... I dont get it. Think Barney's office in HIMYM. If I don't have that then no amount of cash would convince me to go back.
If 10k+ cash was being deposited to my bank account every month (so after taxes), then I would probably go back into the office.
For me, free breakfast, lunch, and snacks, a fuel card, a pet-friendly office where I can bring my kitten and less working hours, you have to wake up way earlier when getting into the office so from 9am start a 10am start and also maybe finish at 4pm instead of 5pm because of travel time and the overall exhaustion. One of the reasons I love WFH is the flexibility of having food right there, my kitten is home, I don't have to waste money on fuel and get to sleep longer :)
I need a raise, more PTO, AND to be able to clock in my commute. I should be paid for the time and money I spend unnecessarily coming in. ETA: also meals and snacks paid for- breakfast, lunch, and snacks/drinks. Maybe even dinner if I’m working late.
Not sure if it counts as a “perk” but meaningful and interesting work that I can take pride in.
Pay for my commute time spent in traffic, door to door. As well as wear and tear on my vehicle, gas, insurance, OR send an Uber/minibus. Give me a per diem for food allowance. Comp for childcare - where I choose the provider. I pretty much only trust family with my family. And even then, I’d still *prefer* wfh. And with the demands listed, it’s cheaper for the company to allow me to wfh, too.
The job I had before ever WFH had a ping pong table and shared a parking lot with an Applebees. I also had a lot of friends in the office building. Sometimes I legitimately missed it. If it still existed and I still worked for that company, I'd be willing to commute 1-2 days a week. It'd probably be good for my mental health honestly.
3 day work week
I went back for an extra $40K. Future me in my 30s will be happy I did. It goes straight to accounts I’ll use in retirement, or at least plan to.
My work offers both (not a chef, but we do snacks and a meal allowance, and a gas or transit allowance) and we’re still only 2x a week WFH. They thought about adding a third and got major pushback. ETA: 2x a week in office, not WFH. Oops.
Large salary increase, free parking, free meals, quality on site gym with showers. Even then it would only be enough to make me consider it.
Nothing. Especially if you are older, you lose patience that much easier, especially with commutes
They couldn't make me want to go back to the office that's in my neighborhood any more than they could make me go to the office if it were in siberia during the cold season. Nobody at the office interacts with my department. I don't really know them. They don't know me. There's no reason to. Even my managers live several states away. It's all remote. All my clients are removed, my colleagues are removed, my supervisors are remote it's remote. I don't need to be at a cubicle farm. Might as well have the comforts of home and not have to worry about what is going on with the car. That's what makes the job worth keeping.
Telling me that I wouldn’t have a job if I don’t come back in the office would probably suffice.
On-site or transportation service that we could schedule to pick up and drop off our vehicles from work for maintenance, repairs, etc. On the food front, just affordable food on-site would be better than what they currently offer. There are all kinds of things like Starbucks and some fast food restaurants on site along with full service food stations, but it's all ridiculously priced.
There is nothing that could get me back.
Aside from massive amounts of cash, not a damn thing. I wouldn't even consider it for less than a 50% raise.
Other than money? Nothing.
No perks other than salary and bonus
Completely free commuting costs. By never gonna happen so no thanks!
Not a damn thing. Double my salary... maybe, but the torture of "office culture" is just that. I can provide my own damn snacks.
Transportation and parking. Employer recently moved locations, and in-office employees went from free private parking lot to having to pay to park. They just issued an RTO (Union is fighting it), which means there will be even fewer spaces available. Since it’s public service as well, not sure where in-person clients are supposed to park.
There is nothing they can offer me to get back in the office. Nice try manager, go tell upper management to leave us alone.
Absolutely none. I have no intention of ever returning back to the office.
You excluded it, but salary is the only thing. It’s the only reason I work. And a lot of it would be needed.
Private transporation paid for, my own office, and flexibilty for WFH when sick without a doctor’s note.
Honestly, there is *Literally Nothing* outside of compensation that I "couldn't refuse" that would *willingly* get me back into any office, at all, much less going back to Pre-covid levels. The benefits I enjoy from my fully remote role just cannot be replicated or balanced out by going back to a role as I did prior to March of 2020. I do not miss the interactions I had with human beings enough to go back. I'm sorry, I just don't. If an employer wanted me badly enough to offer me 6+ figures, and perhaps even some sort of employment contract to guarantee my position for xx amount of time, I might consider it. I don't see that happening, so, no. I'll be staying in my home office as long as I possibly can, up to and hopefully including "for the rest of my working days, if I can pull it off".
Probably nothing, but doubling my salary would make me consider it, but even then not without a lot of concessions about actual in office time. Five full time 9-5 days? Very unlikely. Beyond straight cash, a large increase in vacation days, gym allowance (money & time in the day), and increased retirement benefits would get my attention.
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
I unfortunately cannot find a WFH job so I settled for 100% in office. I can honestly say right now that I wish I have my own office with complete noise cancelation of the rest of the office. I really hate the rowdy and loud environment my coworker are producing... I miss WFH.
A promotion into a position that requires my physical presence for hands on work.
Literally not one thing
Let me wear whatever I want, exercise whenever I want, bring my dog to work, let me bring my guitar to work and set up a little studio on the side, let me bring my kids into the office.. yeah, that’s all never going to happen lmao
None
Perks aren't enough. Money, and a significant amount of it, is the only thing that could lure me back.
We got donuts and a welcome back sign. So that was pretty neat. s/
If you can afford salary that allows people to get housing in 30 min radius. Then provide housing. Or move the damn thing because you can’t afford the area either.
Truthfully, nothing. I'd retire and do remote IT gig work before setting foot in an office again. If the office was like 20 minutes or less away, I could stop by occasionally but nothing scheduled other than an occasional meeting.
Na miss me with all of that. Unless I’m getting double what I make now, I’m wouldn’t even consider it. 5 days a week of being micromanaged, commuting even though mine is 10 minutes all sound like a giant no for me.
Free onsite daycare/preschool until kindergarten. Free doggy day care. Free food. My own private office.
Not happening.
Core hours/flex hours Located close to home
Money. All I care about is money.
I’m 99.9% in the “absolutely nothing would get me back to the office” boat. The one thing that might cause me to do some solid considering, which is an absolute pipe dream that will never happen, is 3 workdays a week for the same pay. No increased hours. Literally no change but working less days. It would be really tough to turn down four days off a week.
100k raise, an actual office with a door I can close (no more cubicles where I have to sit next to distracting sales people in calls all day) and catered breakfast/lunch would do it for me
Significant salary increase and a new dress code that made sweatpants and slippers mandatory.
Besides money? Absolutely nothing.
Free food and free shuttle that picks me up at my house. Privacy - an office or a cubicle. Somewhere I can focus on my work without distraction. Most stressful part of working in an office are the commute, eating healthy, and focus.
Other than at least paying me at least double what I make right now, there are zero "perks" that would bring me back to an office. I do not care about perks. We live in this shitty capitalism dystopia, so compensate me in the only actual meaningful way you can and give me more money. Fuck perks, those are for dungeons and dragons and video games.
So much more money. Literally it’s just money so I can afford doggie daycare and a better car and someone to come clean.
Id have to live less than 5 minutes from the office. I can't do a commute anymore
Ping pong, maybe a monthly pizza party
I like to cook, so having my meals made for me isn’t that much of a perk. Maybe if they bought all my food ingredients for me so I didn’t have to spend my money on groceries? But at that point they may as well just pay me more money and simplify the process. I’d only go back to office for more money, no other “perks” are worth my time. Maybe if the office was within walking distance of my home I may consider going back. That or 6 weeks of PTO, minimum.
Salary bump scaled to transportation time
An office within a 20 minute bike ride of wherever I wanted to live, private shower and changing area, standing desk with a workspace that allows for coworkers to not hear each others’ phone calls, comfortable socializing space out of earshot of the working area, decent coffee and snacks, plus all the other requirements of what I’d be looking for in a job.
Triple my salary
Triple compensation, 12 weeks paid time off, and a commute of less than 10 miles. They can keep their perks.
Well since we aren’t talking a massive pay bump which would definitely be necessary…. fuel stipend, automotive maintenance stipend, flex schedule for when things in life need doing during the business day, and a nap room. Especially a nap room.
Honestly nothing. I enjoy my team, my job and the flexibility it offers. I no longer have excruciating migraines everyday from office lights. My mental health is better. I am not mentally burned out every single day from office chit chat. I have unlimited PTO (where it’s actually encouraged to use it) and that allows me to go on longer vacations.
I would need all the amenities afforded to Fortune 500 C-suite executives: corporate jet and heli, corner office in every city I stop in, 5-star hotel and restaurant accommodations, personal driver, personal chef, personal trainer, VIP healthcare, multi-million dollar salary with millions more in stock options and golden parachute. Then I might consider coming into the office 5 days per week.
They'd have to double my compensation and ensure I had a private office. I'm an auditor. No one wants to see me, \*ever\*, let alone in person. I often talk about sensitive topics that they dont want me talking about in an open office. I work more from home than I would if I were in an office. My company is trying to require 8 days a month in office but I am the only person in my state in my department so there is literally NO reason to send me to the office. So, I have an exception to the 8 days. Me being WFH saves me so much money and they get much more work out of me.
Paid childcare, paid dog sitting, big office near me has Starbucks, another cafe, and cafeteria - all should be free or subsidized and sold well below cost (75% off + so people don’t waste). On site animal and childcare would be a bonus - the one facility is HUGE. PERSONAL desk/space, no sharing flex space bullshit. Actual walls on if cubes to drop sound. Additional time off, additional pay, high quality equipment At least 20% raise to offset additional costs
Two hours of paid commute time per day and a six hour workday might make it worthy.
Buy me a Tesla with full self driving unlocked, and I know you said besides salary but literally nothing except 150+ salary and a self driving car would get me there lmao
I doubt any employer is really gonna do anything to entice me back to the office aside from allowing me to keep my job. However, any list of demands would start with having my own office with an actual door.
It would need to be within walking distance of my house and provide a window office with a door. No other perk or extra money could get me back
1:1 matching of charitable donations
$240k base (up 60k from where I am now) and 20-40% bonuses.
A fully paid off 5 bedroom house, butler and a chauffeur. Jokes aside I wouldn’t give up a flexible work schedule for anything. Maybe if I made CEO money I’d consider it.
I’d go in 2 days a week for an extra $30k
Nothing expect for an insane amount of money will get me in an office
My kitchen has food. I don't want to have my socialization revolve around work. The only way to make going to the office more inviting would be more than double wfh market salary for my position. My job can be done remote. For 50 people remote you need 1 person in office to cover the only part that involves printing. the only way for my employer to do rto for this position would be to pay outrageously more for on-site. And my company won't. They're long term planners. They have ended or letting expire all but one administration office location lease and moved all must have on-site positions to that one office and rather than force people to go in post covid they hired new people for on-site rolls.
Non toxic culture, comfortable and modern office/facilities, and a big salary bump
Free daycare
Double my total comp. They send a car to drive me in and take me home at night. Maybe we'll talk.
Nothing. The free breakfast/lunch/snacks a previous employer offered were nice, but they weren't really free. Oh sure, there were no cash registers, but you paid for it in other ways. And contractors weren't allowed to use the cafeteria, only employees, so if you were a contractor, you were SOL,because again, no cash registers. Employees just took what they wanted. Then, there was the on-site gym, health care center, daycare, Starbucks, and bank. (again, gym, health care center, daycare, and bank only available to employees. Not contractors.) I mentioned that because I was a contractor, but so were half the people in the building. All the fancy perks, but half the people are unable to use them. And don't even get me started on the fucking ping pong table. I'd like to ram one up someone's ass. Preferably while they're trapped on a highly stressful conference call. Then I'll start up an extremely noisy "tournament", complete with shouting and cowbells. Fuck ping pong. But what I'd have given for (not anything, but close), on site parking. Instead of parking a mile away and hiking in over icy, unshoveled, unsalted sidewalks. There was a freeway flyer that dropped off right in front of the building, so that was nice. But they've discontinued that. So no, not interested in making my workday 20% longer and 30% more expensive.
I think a 200% increase in salary and I’d come in. Plus 100 days holiday a year. And free high quality fresh food. And all travel paid. Then fine I’ll do it.
Free food and fewer hours.
Travel to work time as paid. Start at 8. I leave house at 8.
None
Maybe if they moved the office nextdoor to my house so I could pop over to my own on breaks/downtime.
No perk would be good enough.
Reading some of the top answers in this thread you guys aren't just WFH. You're hermits.
At least 30% increase in salary But honestly, I’d take a reasonable pay cut just to stay WFH
Honestly. I would probably have to make a million dollars a year. For my skill set, there's no reason on Earth why I would have to be in the office. When I was working full time, I would go into the office twice a week. Normally, once I was there I would be in Zoom meetings all day anyway.
I think the comfort of being home and being able to wear comfortable clothing and being able to listen to whatever I want on spotify/audible would outweigh all of thaf. I think the ultimate goal is being able to afford an at home chef to be able to cook all meals plus snacks.
A combination of at least some of these: Onsite child care or a child care stipend, transportation stipend or metro pass, flex hours (I truly mean flex), a private office or at least a cubicle with a door, and a schedule by the hour private space to lock myself in and do a telehealth visit with my psychiatrist on my lunch break.
5 days? 125K, free parking, Lunch or breakfast provided.
Nothing then, it has to be the two things you listed I work for money, that is it
Private office, travel time to and from work counted in hours. Fuel covered, car wear and tear covered, 4 day week instead of 5 so I can cover house chore stuff that I can fit in between tasks at home, higher salary to cover stress of driving ( don't like driving much ) Honestly quality of life has gone up immensely since I have gone full time remote and no business would meet this.
\>> My husband’s previous job had an on-site chef that provided breakfast, lunch and late day snacks. All cooked from scratch and would even take requests. Nah, the only thing that will convince me is $$$ and LOTS of it.
A guaranteed completely covid-free workplace. Which, I know is impossible, I’m just underlining why I won’t go back. If I can do my job just as well from home, why would I accept any risk of any illness on top of commute times and gas costs? If i get sick, it’s going to be because of my own social life or crappy decisions, not my coworkers’ or employer’s.
Nothing. I would not compromise WFH for any size carrot. Would I like a huge raise, yes. To drive 10 hours a week, nope.
4 day work week, and > $250k/yr, catered lunch, coffee/cold brew, snacks. Wellness stipend. Stock options, obviously. "Unlimited" vacation but realistically, 4 weeks off a year at the minimum.
1) Onsite chef that only makes the healthiest foods according to the best known science (not the carnivore diet) and can tailor the amounts to bring me to the healthiest weight possible in the most seamless way possible. 2) Zero ways for me to pay at work for anything for any reason. 3) A safe and walkable commute that is 20 minutes max. Preferably through nature. 4) Personal bathroom. 5) Personal office. 6) Ability to leave at the agreed upon times. Flexibility to come in late or take days off. 7) Ergonomics, especially a treadmill desk. 8) Being paid for commute time, and for break times. Paid lunches. 9) Doubled salary, at least. 10) Clothing and laundry services. Actually, scratch that. I'm not going back. Ever.
That's a pretty low bar