> >Well, less gathering because WFH arguably means less friends made in aggregate means less trusting relationships, means downward spiral for society. > This

> >Well, less gathering because WFH arguably means less friends made in aggregate means less trusting relationships, means downward spiral for society. > This is a false equivalency. You don't need to be friends to have a basic sense of trust that people won't stab you in the back or be out to get you. That is not what the point of that article was. The point of that article was that unless people are close they'll assume when they get wronged that there was ill intent even if there wasn't. To put it another way, you forgive your friends but not your non-friends. > Regardless, it doesn't really matter. You don't need to forcefeed people one way of working like we've done for the past decades, for one. For two, most of your arguments towards adults are moot considering work friends aren't solving the problems most people have regarding lack of friends, quality time, love and romance, and more. Trying to pine this on WFH is pointing at the red herring. There's a practically unlimited amount of evidence that people make strong and lasting friends at work. Removing that is removing a large source of making friends throughout life. Further, you mentioned love and romance, well, work is in the top 2 of places that people meet their spouse through work. Switch from spouse to lover and the number skyrockets. Remove that and that source of love and romance disappears. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/articles-reports/2020/02/13/how-do-brits-find-love https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/articles-reports/2020/02... Dating app are popular now but they only work for people who present well. For the rest, many fall for people they spend lots of time getting to know. Work is the #1 source of a place where people spend time together and so a chance to get to know someone beyond a picture and a paragraph of text.