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The problems many employees felt working from home for the past year — such as isolation and lack of social interaction with colleagues
If my colleagues want to put on business clothes and commute across town in traffic so they can ask each other how their weekend was between meetings, be my guest. Since my city has been opening up and I can interact outside with my friends (you know, people I choose to interact with lmao) my feelings of social isolation have mysteriously melted away.
One downside to a work from home model is that workers are completely atomized and estranged from one another, making collective action near impossible. Any institution that adopts work from home has basically nothing to fear from organized labor.
There might be different opportunities though. The company can’t foster the fake-family-cult shit either, so there’s less to fight against in a way. And it’s way harder to monitor you. For instance I am posting in a communist forum about organized labor, on the clock
You can just use your phone or whatever, or another laptop, even a cheap ass old one if the remote access software is taking over your main one.
I mean, fuck Google and all businesses of course but I would be one of those people who would say they don’t like working from home all the time. I’ve started a new job since COVID so I only went into the office once to get my laptop. It’s been really really hard and stressful to learn an entirely new job from home, I know I would have learned a lot more if I was in the office. And I do kinda want to do a good job because after 15 years I finally got out of the corporate world and finally got to do something I kinda like with an org I kinda believe in.
As someone who has all of my friends and family living in my old hometown hundreds of miles away, I actually would like to have a few weeks of “work from home time” I could fly back and work from there.
And this one is more personal… but I’m an introvert and my partner is an extrovert. I miss being able to leave work a little early and play some disc golf or just do whatever before going home. But now that I’m WFH it’s like any time I want to leave the house, it becomes a whole thing (i.e. "oh if you’re going to the park we should go together). It’s been pretty tough on me ngl.
None of this is any sort of defense against these capitalists trying to spin WFH as perk, of course. In my ideal world I’d still be WFH like 2-3 days a week. Just want to offer perspective on why some folks might actually not want WFH all the time, you know?
I feel you on the relationship part. I know communication is hard but it’s really worth being open about it with your partner. I think framing it exactly how you did here should be completely understandable, as long as you emphasize that you still love them (of course only if you do love them lol)
