Originally Posted by
CleverNickname
I haven't seen a co-worker in person since... sometime this spring? We don't do cameras for teleconferencing, so I'm to the point where I don't shave most days (unless I'm planning on going somewhere after work), let alone put on pants. While there are a few advantages to office work over telecommuting, telecommuting still wins overall. So an equivalent job which required on-site work would need to pay me more to make up the difference for clothes, gas & mileage on my car, and to compensate for the lost time for the commute I no longer have. My choice of what clothes to wear would just be a rather small part of it. Pre-pandemic my job was pretty lenient about that anyways. Jeans and an untucked polo was typical.