dieselbravo23

Enterprise Account Executive

First post: work from home vs 5 days in office

I recently started a role in Mid Market Enterprise in NYC. We are required to be in office 5 days a week, while other sales channels/verticals are mostly on a hybrid schedule, 2-3 days in office and the rest of the week work from home.

How are your your companies approaching requests for WFH? would love to hear feedback..

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Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Fully remote and wouldn’t want it any other way

FinanceEngineer

Politicker

Sr Director, sales and partnerships

Not even a couple of days a week? I like a day or two. Makes planning easier.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Curious how does going in the office 1-2 days a week make planning easier?

FinanceEngineer

Politicker

Sr Director, sales and partnerships

Coordination with others on the team and having their full attention.

braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

My company is 100% remote. We have offices but no one is required to go there.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Us to. Mine is a 2-3 hour drive away so unless there's an event or clients visiting I'm here.
And if that's happening, they get me a hotel room.

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

Sounds like a Manager thing - the person equate being there in person with control and being a good manager.
You need to build trust. You just started so overall trust is very low. Build trust though being there every day, closing business, not needing you manager to crack the whip to make you work, etc... Then you ask for a day here and there for WFH, and build on that.

BmajoR

Arsonist

Account Executive

I've never known the luxury of hybrid or WFH so I can't say. I'm pretty ready to change things up though in that regard but this market sucks.

HappyGilmore

Politicker

Account Executive

Fully remote for me, I go in the office (live close by) once a week usually however to get out of the house

GDO

Politicker

BDM

In the 5 years I work I’ve been in the office 3 months. Never again 😅

BTQ

Politicker

Account Manager

100% remote, optional wework

Space_Ghost20

Valued Contributor

Account Executive

My company is remote/hybrid. There's a shared office space downtown that they told us we'd start using 2x a month, but so far it's been only once a month.

My desire to put in extra hours is directly related to whether I have to drive home or not. I'll take a 7:30 pm meeting in the comfort of my home, but I probably won't in an actual office. Also, our shared office space is not idea for working. The only private rooms have very high barstool seating with no back support. The only alternative is working out in the open where everyone is talking and there's noise, etc.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

I would never go to 5 days a week in-office. I've had at least one since like 2014?
Full remote all the way.

Gyro25

Notorious Answer

Account Executive

Remote and if they proposed otherwise, I'd challenge my manager to mortal combat.

RandyLahey

Politicker

Account Executive

Fully remote, and hard to envision doing it another way. Maybe hybrid, but my productivity is far superior, and frankly, it's more humane this way.
How is this affecting you? And what were your expectations?

dieselbravo23

Executive

Enterprise Account Executive

The commute is roughly 1 hour each way. I use the time to read/prep for meetings etc, but it Irks me that other depts get the hybrid model and we don’t. I knew it would be 5 days in office when I accepted the offer, just didn’t realize it didn’t apply to everyone.
I have brought this up to management, and they didn’t seem happy about it. I will make do for now.

RandyLahey

Politicker

Account Executive

Yeah that’s smart. You voiced your concern now move on. Good luck

FinanceEngineer

Politicker

Sr Director, sales and partnerships

Depends - I am either remote it hybrid depending on the whims of the C suite

lowhangersalesbanger

Executive

Director of Sales

I hired a guy for a role that was in office and he lived an hour away. I asked him like 20 times if he would be fine with the commute. A week in he asks about work from home. I tell him no and he spends the next 5 months bitching about not being work from home until he quits. Don't be that guy

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

100% work from home, 2 days person to person meeting per quarter

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

Carpet commute for me. Good on tires.

Revenue_Rambo

Politicker

Director, Revenue Enablement

Half our team is remote others are local to the office and go in 2-3 days a weeks. Quarterly 3 day onsite meetings for all.

My personal preference is remote with a few face-to-face meetings per year. If you have to do in person then there has to be a reason for it AND structure ( ie workshop, training, planning, collaboration).

Being in the office to do the same thing you can and already do at home is a waste for everybody.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I'm remote. That's the only thing keeping me here.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Fully remote - but was hired that way. Good thing, too. Our office is 2,119 miles from here with a commute time of roughly 32 hours by car.
So to make this actually relevant, I did work for a company where I went to the office every day, but the office was in my town, and it was no commute. We then got acquired and the office was shut down, and we were moved to the city, which was over an hour each way. I was able to negotiate a hybrid role because of the commute and my performance. Maybe over time you'll be able to point to your stellar performance and the conversation will be easier.
Do you know why your team is fully in office? And the other teams - is it manager preference that they are hybrid, or they are Enterprise/Strategic and travel to customers? Or something else?

dieselbravo23

Executive

Enterprise Account Executive

Likely because of underperformance as a team. I feel an impending storm of micromanagement brewing already..

saaskicker

Celebrated Contributor

Enterprise AE

2 days in office, we pick the days, it's not really enforced.

sketchysales

Politicker

Sales Manager

Full time in the office though 50% of my time is spent travelling on the road.
I did not bond well with wfh, way to adhd or something.

quotascammedeverytime

Opinionated

account executive

That sucks. Why did you take that role? It says a lot about your ceo/boss that they don’t give a shit about your future financial freedom or autonomy

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

Going into an office 5x a week is a mostly hard pass for me

LambyCorn

Arsonist

A mfkn E

my company is 100% remote, but i think im about to rent out a wework space, i lowkey miss the office and think i worked 3x better

FoodForSales

Politicker

much prefer to WFH, but there are merits to going into an office

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