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It has a weird cascading effect. At one time I lived alone and absolutely loved my two closest coworkers...spent the day laughing and chatting and genuinely lo
by silisili 5y ago
It has a weird cascading effect. At one time I lived alone and absolutely loved my two closest coworkers...spent the day laughing and chatting and genuinely loved going into the office each day. If you asked me at that time, I'd have been a 5 day office vote.
Over a few months the company allowed remote, and those quit showing up. And in turn, I quit showing up, and became a '0 day office' vote.
I'm interested to see how many others go through something similar when companies start return to office options.
- cbsks 5y agoI went through exactly the same thing. Pre-pandemic I loved going into the office. When our office opened back up last summer most people continued to work remotely. We went from having ~40 people in the office to 4 including me. I continue to show up because I have my own office at work that is much better than my home office, but I don’t enjoy it nearly as much. If I had a better home office I would stop coming in.
- willio58 5y agoSimilar thing for me, went back to the office once it was an option. After a few weeks I started questioning why I was in the office at all, and I think it came down to a lack of social interaction in my life. Turns out that working on that completely separately from my job has made me a much happier person. And when I inevitably quit my current job one day, I won't be losing all of my friends.