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Mostly downsides at the office
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cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/27615443
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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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I agree that WFH is far more efficient and a better situation for most office-based workers, but I wouldn't call going "multiple days without speaking to another human being" an upside. My issue with office work is I have to get up early and get myself ready and fight through traffic, not that I have to interact with other people even if I don't like some of them.
I think that's a regressive point of view. I'm skeptical of anyone with a platform that pushes it, and somewhat repulsed by the normal people that repeat it. Naturally, I think. You don't like people? Well, I'm a people... You're a people too. All of us are people. Good people, whatever your idea of a bad person is, we all are people and we people are social creatures.
In a healthy society we should want to be around other people and, in fact, as a group we become more accepting of individual differences by encountering and interacting with numerous and diverse groups of people and accepting them into our norm, seeing first-hand that we are all just normal people going through life and striving for what we believe is good. We people add so much more than we threaten, we are capable of great and profound things when we work together to achieve them.
It's not normal to turn your nose up at that and I hate that it is being normalized.
I really don't get the "WFH = antisocial" angle. I have friends, I have a partner, I leave the house and go to social places. I don't rely on my workplace to provide for my social needs.
Before working from home I ran a small factory where much of the time I was the only person on the premises. I didn't have the time or energy to do much socialising when I worked there. My social life became richer when I stopped and worked from my dining room!
Did we read the same post? The one I read said it was good to not interact with another human being for days on end.
Thanks for letting me know your anecdotal experience though. Mine does not at all look like that but it sure sounds nice. congratulations I guess?
We did, however you, unlike me, managed to retain the wording of it.
That's what I get for replying to stuff during a work meeting!