Is this gaslighting or manifesting?
“I could work for a bit, then walk the dog or meet a friend for coffee, then continue working after,” she says. “I had this great office space in my house, too. As soon as I had finished work, I had the ability to fully relax.”
“It creeped up on me how much I liked being in the office,” she says. “In the mornings, I'd be looking forward to seeing my colleagues and having a nice chat.” Bryan missed the camaraderie in a way she never would’ve predicted only a few months ago. “That social interaction and feel of being part of a collective is something I think people forget when they’ve not had it for ages.”
When I worked from home I could only voluntarily meet coworkers I like for coffee without feeling like I'm in a panopticon. Now I can involuntarily meet all my coworkers and chat over bad coffee while my manager calculates how much time I waste.
The demon who wrote this article should be sent back to hell for our protection.
Bryan sounds like a fucking dweeb with no social life because all she cares about is work, no shit she felt lonely at home
Followup story: "Four day workweek trial: The firms where it didn't work" Could they be more nakedly anti-worker?
"92% of employers said it was a good idea, but we're going to write an article about how the other 8% felt like something was off."
I don't want to be in my office because paying for a commute sucks, and so does the COVID exposure, and the other diseases exposure if I'm honest, however I do become depressed when I don't interact with a variety of people. I get cabin fever when I don't have a reason to leave the house, and on a lot of days between work work and house work, driving to work is the only reason I do leave home, especially in the winter when I'm already struggling to see enough sunlight.
These managers are scum, and absolutely don't have people's best interests at heart, but the idea that someone might prefer a schedule where they are in office a couple days a week is absurd is itself absurd.
Once again, due to the downsides if I could choose 100% WFH, I would, but there are upsides to being out of the home for work.
People are too caught up in the extremes. Obviously people shouldn't be forced to work in an office when working from home is a legitimate alternative, and commuting can be a pretty ugly routine, but there are benefits to working at the same place and time as others. Anecdotally, I work 99% from home. Is it nice to wake up later, wear sweats all day, and make quick errands? Yes. But I also struggle to focus, feel like I'm on the clock constantly, and haven't made a single friend since the abrupt end of my senior year of college 3 years ago.
Since I have to work anyway I would rather go to an office . It's convenient to have WFH a couple days a week but I felt really isolated and lonely when I did it every day.
