In Harvard Square, my go-to bathroom is in Felipe's. They're open all day until really late at night.

Trader Joes usually have nice restrooms. Other grocery stores will also have restrooms but they aren't always as nice. TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Starbucks are always some of my go-to bathrooms as well.

My dad did regional management in sales and his company let him work remotely for a few years while he was battling cancer until he retired. That was the only time I saw remote work outside of freelance non-salaried work until COVID.

Some of my favorites are the Boston Park Plaza and the Intercontinental

Our office was WFH on Friday. Even with that, you'd have to be at the company for a while to take advantage of that.

Now we are basically the opposite. One, maybe two days in the office.

What industry?

I’ve found if you ask politely enough most restaurants / coffee shops will let you use their bathroom without buying anything

I was five days a week no exceptions.

A lot of friends in cooler industries had one or two days a week hybrid.

Now I’m hybrid and those friends are mostly remote 100%.

Idk, one of my friends workes regulatory affairs for a company based in suburban MA (far from Boston), and she works from home twice a week with no issues. It actually does save her for her commute ( she lives in NH).

Capo basement

City of Boston public bathrooms:

https://www.boston.gov/departments/311/public-restrooms-city-boston

Greater Boston area (including Boston)- public bathrooms only:

bathroomaccess.com

Edit: the second link includes Boston + surrounding cities of metro Boston

You’ll want to see a studio before renting it. It’s often a two room…

• bathroom
• kitchenette, space for a chair and a bed

I’d go crazy living in that.

Hong Kong

I'm still pretty skeptical of companies that call themselves "hybrid" and only offer 1-2 days of WFH a week tbh. It seems to me they really despise remote work and throw you a limited bone as a carrot on a stick. From talking to my friends who work remote one day a week, they tell me their employers usually don't do the WFH part well because they lack the infrastructure and culture to make it work. Which makes sense, because you're in an office most of the time. And you know they'll eventually use that to get rid of it altogether.

Accountant… 5 days a week with basically no excuses. Even when we had to work a random Saturday, it was in office. Now, for a different company and post-Covid, I’m 100% remote and will never go back!

My husband is a software engineer and worked fully remote for a small startup/government contractor before the pandemic. In fact, they were in the process of opening their first small office when the pandemic hit.

I’m also a software engineer and would wfh when I had an appointment, at the end of my pregnancy, when my kid was sick or on a random Friday because I felt like it, but I was in the office more often than not and regular WFH weren’t super common.

That's sounds more like it makes sense to me. When I was an undergrad pre COVID, my professors did make it seem like Bioinfo was remote work friendly. I think the idea was if you worked Bioinfo in Boston and had a long commute, 1-2 WFH days was much more manageable, as opposed to entry level biotech jobs, where you need to be on site due to the nature of the work.

Boston is not huge, but rent prices sway dramatically depending on location. You should do research in terms of what neighborhoods you would prefer, and then search based on that.

That being said, studios will be on average $2000/mo, 1br $2500/mo, 2br $3000/mo, although it all depends on the location and features.

Paying extra just because you want guests in their own bedroom is quite kind, but it's probably not the best idea in the long run vs. having them sleep in the living room.

It really depends upon the job role and industry. I work in tech, which is one of the easier areas to allow for remote work.

I have been at least hybrid for the past 15 years (2-3 days remote per week). I've been fully remote for the past 5 years.

For me, I work with cloud providers (AWS & Azure), so if I commute for 1-1.5 hours into the city to be at the office, I am still working remotely from the environment I am supporting. My employer recognizes that it makes more sense to save 2-3 hours per day for me to work from home.

Not everyone has this luxury though. I am very lucky with the companies I have worked at to allow this situation.

in 2015 i worked 1 day/week from home at an advertising company. Between 2005 and 2015 i was front end dev freelancer and worked remotely for more than half of my clients who were mostly ad companies.

2 beds are at around $2500 minimum in the cheapest but still somewhat desirable parts of the city. More like $3000+ in the better parts. If you want laundry probably closer to $3500. Can’t speak to 1 beds or studios but they aren’t significantly cheaper. Outside of the city in the metro area will be cheaper. Just browse zillow and see what’s available.

Well, fully remote is still a big ask, even in the post COVID world. I'm more thinking of being allowed 1-2 WFH days a week. Of course fully remote is another thing.

I'm from Europe... Any other questions?

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Studios start from about $2000/mo. I can't speak to one- and two-beds, but they will be more than that.

I decided to make a career change into tech in 2019. I was living and working on the South Coast at the time. I applied to a lot of Boston-area tech companies, and I don't think I saw a single entry level or mid-level role that was remote-eligible. The first thing every interviewer asked me is if I planned on relocating to Boston because that commute is going to kill me. In my very limited experience of simply interviewing for tech jobs in Boston, remote work pre-pandemic seems like it was unheard of for entry and mid-level roles. FWIW, I did know several people who were senior engineers with 20+ years experience who negotiated work-from-home, but that seemed like the exception not the norm. Pre-pandemic, a lot of the "name-brand" Boston-area tech companies built up their in-office cultures as a kind of "perk" and it was seen as a benefit to go into the office, even if the commute sucked.

As for what happened to me, I gave up on Boston and got a full-time in-office tech job along the 495 belt in February 2020. Good that I got a stable job in a new field just before the world went to shit, bad in that the owner of the company refused to allow remote work and forced us all back in mid-2020 (before even vaccines!). Quit that job in 2022 for a fully remote Boston-based tech company that DGAF if I ever come into the office, which has since been significantly downsized due to becoming a remote-first company. I will say when I was job hunting in mid-to-late 2022, things had completely changed in tech. I couldn't even find a full-time in-office job if I wanted to. About 75 percent of my interviews were with out-of-state fully remote companies, and 25 percent in-state hybrid/remote companies.