You call the shots if what you offer is valuable and can be done from home.

Public libraries are always my go to!

I would also like to add that fully remote is fantastic for work life balance, but it comes with its cost as well in that it's very hard to build personal connections. In my industry where you need a very long education and training, and once you start working still many decisions in the work place rely on experience, some regular face to face times with more senior colleagues could be critical for your career growth. People who stayed in the company long enough don't need it; people with a ton of experience don't need it. It's the junior ones that're affected most.

Love going to the office everyday.

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In my industry pre-covid, it was non existent unless you were a part time contract/freelancer. Everyone was expected to be in the office 100% of the time. Post pandemic, after we were forced to be remote and saw no dip in productivity, it's a mandatory 3 days in office, 2 days optional remote, as well as a pool of "remote hours" you can use over the year.

Some people like me negotiated a full-time remote situation moving forward, but that would have been unheard of pre pandemic.

Very common in some professions not in others. The bad weather, staggered school and daycare start times and unreliable public transit meant a lot of people in the professions worked from home 1-3 days a week.

It’s one of the reasons so many people went fully remote so fast- the tech and logistics were in place at least partially in a lot of places.

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And cheaper to rent off airport

Exec assistant and before COVID I worked from home one day a week. Continued that job fully remote and left recently for a job that’s hybrid and seriously questioning my sanity lol

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Biotech data people have been remote for a while

And karaoke downstairs!

Hotels, grocery stores, Dunkin’ Donuts, gas stations.

Downtown along the water is public access area called the Harbor Walk and has so so many public bathrooms.

FYI there is a special card that patients with Crohns and Ulcerstivr colitis can get that allows them to use any business’ restroom. https://greaterbostongi.com/what-is-inflammatory-bowel-disease-ibd/restroom-access-card/

See if you can get something similar from your doc or foundation.

2nd floor, to the left of the escalators when riding up from the Boylston side

A quick search of Google Maps for car rentals near Newburyport only turns up a Tesla rental and a “temporarily closed” enterprise.

Lowell might be a better choice.

If you're in the Downtown / Financial District area, a lot of the fancier lobbies have public bathrooms.

Also, Tatte's, Flour's and Cafe Nero's usually have bathroom codes for 'guests only', that said, they're almost always too busy to actually pay attention to who's bought something. A good backup plan.

Yes, I was hybrid before covid and my employer had entire remote offices.

What made remote work more common at my last job was the blizzards of 2015.

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Buying a charlie ticket and using an empty corner of the MBTA seems common. If you have IBS, people seem to wait for an empty elevator.

FYI from South Station to Logan, there is a long tunnel too.

From Logan Airport, take Rt 1A North to 60, then to Rt 1 North. This will link you up with 95 North close to Peabody.

We were like this too. Software company selling to banks. Office in the financial district, most people WFH 2-3 days a week.

During COVID my employer cancelled our lease and closed the office (about 50 people there), everybody permanent WFH. Most of the people I talk to were disappointed, the office was awesome and it was nice to have lunch together. I ended up moving out of the city and live out in the suburbs now. Since we no longer have an office I rarely speak to some of the folks I used to have lunch with. We work in different departments. Sad.

where is the bathroom in Nordstrom?! -signed, a fellow often pee-er.