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I'm less engaged with my current job than any other I've had in my whole career. Part of that is flaws specific to the company, but being remote definitely magn

I'm less engaged with my current job than any other I've had in my whole career. Part of that is flaws specific to the company, but being remote definitely magnifies it. It's much harder to feel like I'm a part of something actually real. It feels like work for the sake of work, like I'm not a part of something with people. Seeing them in person occasionally doesn't change that. I'm not so excessively introverted or withdrawn as to dislike being around people so I don't understand the things people complain about with regards to being in an office. Since I have free will I never chose an unacceptable commute. And yeah, open office plans sucked but this contrived zoom shit is worse.

Capricorn2481 3y ago
> Since I have free will I never chose an unacceptable commute Is your view that people take unacceptable commutes because they think they have to?
- jleyank 3y ago
  When the commute is a requirement of employment, yeah, people take unacceptable commutes. They move to undesirable places and impose undesired restrictions on their (potential) family. Eating and all that. WFH and other workplace-flexibilities is a more civilized way of working. And if the BS about being difficult to get (good) people is true, improving the lot of the workers is inevitable.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
  It's my view that all the threads here about remote work feature lots of people with some of the highest salaries and job mobility suddenly acting like it's unethical for them to be asked to leave their house. As if our society hasn't always functioned that way until recently without this level of complaining.