what industry?

Does it seem like I'm arguing? Im just commenting on how insane it is.

Like " Wow thats crazy :o" kind of way. Not doubting that it was real.

I work for a local healthcare system on the administrative side and never worked remotely, except for maybe an extreme snow day or two. Now I'm more or less remote full-time.

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Also, Nordstrom Rack in Back Bay. It’s my go-to.

You can rent a Zip car near South Station...

In IT, we had a few people like myself that worked one day at home and felt lucky. Getting to go to a Dr appointment or leave early to get your kids is what we called flexibility. Strong in office requirement, even getting judged if you worked at home on snowy days. Also at one point I wanted to work from a CA office for a year to follow my spouses job. My boss said I’d have to give up my job as project manager since that job was impossible remotely. Lol.

Boston Public Restrooms https://goo.gl/maps/z9Q96Di8NZQH3xY28

I'm in tech sales and have worked 100% remote since 2016. It was glorious before everyone else could also...

You'll have more trouble avoiding tunnels from South Station to Logan (unless you have no issue with someone else driving through tunnels with you as a passenger).

You can take route 1a or route 1 through East Boston and Revere to 95N.

I worked at least three days in the office before the pandemic and at home a couple of days a week or sometimes more. We closed a lot of our smaller offices over time and let people work from home full time. We were agnostic about whether people should WFH or come into the office. We started doing that around 2006.

Just before the pandemic we had a new CIO who decided everyone needed to be in the office at least three days a week which meant that people had a choice to move near an office or get laid off. Most took the layoff. I retired before the pandemic so I don’t know whether they still want people in the office, the CIO didn’t last long. I had team members all over the US and could have cared less whether they were in the office. I had no clue where they were and couldn’t do hallway conversations with them. As long as I could reach them via IM or phone easily it didn’t matter.

Virtually everything was coordinated remotely. As a manager I had to make sure I did regular 1-1’s and team meetings to keep everybody in sync at little more formally. Telling everyone to come in the office unless they need to be there to actually do stuff seems lazy and dumb.

Where specifically will you be staying around in Boston? If Back Bay, the Marriott in the Prudential Center has a bathroom on the second floor behind the Starbucks. I use this bathroom all the time. There are others around as well, but this one is my go-to. Always clean and in the hub of the area.

I did two days in the office pre-covid.

When we returned I was told three days was expected.

I got a new job.

What do you know about the north end? I once wandered around aimlessly looking for a bathroom once

They meant they only had to come in 4 days a week.

This is just flat out some of the best life advice one can give.

I used to work from home twice a week but sometimes it was 3-4 days a week.

Why are you asking this question and then arguing with people about how terrible the situation was before covid? Do you have a different question you were actually trying to ask? Remote work and hybrid work wasn’t a common thing in the Boston area. Or anywhere. That’s why people talk about “rush hour” and “beating traffic.”

How much is rent in London?

For Boston, it'll vary wildly. Studios can technically be found for as cheap as $1500/month if you don't mind living on the far flung exurbs of the metro area and you're particularly lucky. It's usually $2000/month and up for living on your own. Can be $2500-$3000/month easily.

The city also maintains a map: https://www.boston.gov/departments/311/public-restrooms-city-boston#map--239796

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Pharma/biotech - we had an official telecommute policy where you could work 2 days from home but not everyone did it. My (and my bosses) feeling on it was - just come in when you need to come in. If that’s 5 days this week and 0 days next week because of meetings scheduled - do that.

Hotels all the way! i’ve never been stopped in a hotel lobby. Some Boston favs are the Intercontinental (near the financial district), The Lenox (Back Bay), The Godfrey (Theatre District), Yotel (Seaport).

I was 3-4 day wfh a week for about a year before covid hit, now I am permanently remote.

Same as a lot of people here where everyone with a job that did not physically require you on site was allowed to work from home one day a week.

Of course one of the last bosses I had at that job was a fucking micromanager who never would have let us even do that if it wasn't a blanket policy for everyone. She required you to send a detailed list at the end of the day of what you were working on and made scheduling it a pain in the ass to avoid having overlap of when people were working from home on the same day.

I sometimes imagine that she died at the start of the pandemic because she had a massive stroke over not being able to hover over people's shoulders all day.