Try Bob’s Telescopes on Mass Ave in Cambridge.

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It obviously depends on your role and the company you work for. I was WFH 2 days per week since 2015 and have been full time remote since COVID. That's with 4 job changes.

I worked remotely from Boston since 2016. Didn’t seem common at the time, but startups were much more flexible even back then :)

I would do one to two days at home pre COVID. Creative Director here and it was just an easy way to focus on reviewing projects, or designing.

My dad worked remote in sales since 2002

Yeah I mean Im just a quick red line trip or 20 minute bike ride, but there is absolutely no way on earth I will ever EVER go back to working in an office lol. That era of civilization is over.

During COVID they just fired all the employees and closed the locations.

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Since you could only cancel in person, it was a stroke of business genius!

How about Spin or Puttshack

In startups, there was always one super senior engineer who would work from home each morning and call into stand-ups, then come into the office for a few hours, then go home and call into afternoon meetings.

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The rest of us weren't allowed to do this. "Working from home" was a euphemism that we were taking the day off. Everyone knew it.

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Now I'm 100% remote and I love it. I never want to be forced back into an office and I'll do whatever it takes to avoid it. My performance review was fantastic so any concerns about loss of productivity are crap. No commuting and the ability to get appointments/chores done while listening to meetings? Quality of life is just way, way up.

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Boston Museum of Science has a scope on their roof, as does one of the harvard buildings- both open for public viewing with frequency.

I think MoS is open every weekend?

Atmob member: We're kid friendly, but the scopes are owned by volunteers who do assess a kid's age and ability to follow directions when looking through the scope sometimes worth thousands of dollars. Every kid is different and it's a tough one to feel out, but I've literally seen someone try to swing on a telescope like it was a monkey bar and that's going to be a hard pass.

Right, 4 out of 5 days a week is understandable, but why make you folks come in 5 days a week, if you didn't interact with other team members?

edit: I misread. My bad.

I work in a field where we could have primarily WFH/Hybrid but norms were that you WFH no more than once/week at most and you were pretty much expected to be in the office.

My time to shine! Give me an area of the city and I’ll tell you the best public bathroom

Meant 4 out of 5

I can understand 4 days a week, but 5 days a week?! That's nuts.

edit: I misread. My bad

It depended, and still depends on the company. In tech, 2 days was tolerated with occasional 3 remote days allowed for top performers but the expectation was that you'd be in office a minimum of 2, preferably 4 days a week. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were and are still the most popular days to go to the office to have extended weekends.

Commute times on the other hand were much looser. People always used to come and go way past 9 or way before 5 to try and beat the commute which now turned into an all day rush hour during office days that seem to be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for most.

It's not an insignificant number: https://bkwlawyers.com/the-importance-of-having-new-hampshire-uninsured-motorist-coverage/

Though when you look at national and other state averages, it's not bad. None the less, I suspect this is the reason for the law.

I had my own office and only barely interacted with anybody because they were in their own offices all day, yet our bosses made us come in 4/5 days a week. Soon as Covid hit I hadn’t stepped foot in that building in over 2 years.

I believe some departments have 3 days in, 2 from home. Others are 5 days in office.

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What's the rule for new hires? First yr fully on site?

My wife was a contractor to an IT company. As a contractor, they couldn't require she go into the office, and she worked from home 3 days a week, even though it was a ten minute commute.

She's now got a salaried IT job, based in Cambridge, but the team is remote 4/5 days even though they are all local.