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Feels like 3 things in our current discourse:
for 3: Please don't mix up WFH and always connected! I work from home but after my hours my work phone stays at the work desk and that's it, I'm seeing mails and calls on the next day, that's soon enough
Not an argument for returning to office but rather pointing out the lack of boundaries that can come with it
To your last point, I have been WFH since 2020 and am now leaving because my company is doing RTO. For many, WFH is a huge benefit.
Yeah totally agree and I also work from home and won't go back.
It's just that the other side of the coin for me has been a lack of boundaries when for all intents and purposes we should all be working less.
RTO? Why the acronyms
Corporate jargon has infected my brain
Return to office
I’m really not sure how to solve for 1. So much of modern white collar work is patently pointless (or counterproductive). Definitely hard to stay engaged, especially when few of the benefits of increased productivity actually accrue to the folks doing the work. The disingenuous messaging of bullet 2 often highlights the difference in priorities between those who benefit from from increased productivity and those who just, you know, end up having to work more.