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I'm currently 100% remote, and to be honest I do sometimes miss having coworkers to shoot the shit with, and there absolutely are practical drawbacks to being remote -- especially if you are the one remote worker on a team that is at least partially in office together. At least for me the benefits of being home all the time do outweigh that, on balance, but I'd be lying if I told you that I felt that I was as well-integrated with the rest of my teams as I could be, or that being just a voice and/or face in a video call doesn't have some amount of impact on my long-term prospects.

That said, I really only miss a small handful of my in-office coworkers, and we still do make a point of grabbing lunch every month or three. The rest of the in-office experience can stuff it.

Ideally work would have friendly interactions.

The assumption here is that they have friends and family they want to interact with. It’s lonely when you have no one and working in the office means that you get to socialize and have the potential to do things after work because you’re already dressed/out.

I did know someone like that during the pandemic. He basically hated his wife and kids.

This just in, Lemmy shocked that people have varying opinions

Lol, friends and family? I spend all my time alone in a box, I miss being around people in the office

I work at home Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. In the office Tuesday and Thursday and this works for me, as if I go all week at home my mood plummets, seems I like some human contact in the week.

At weekends I see friends and family.

Especially lemmy users of all people

Some people believe "Hell is other people".

Others believe "Hell is lack of other people".

Yeah, but you can get that outside of an office with people you actually enjoy being with.

Speak for yourself. It highly depends on what people you are talking to and the quality of those relationships. IDGAF about anybody at work and could go my entire life without speaking to them again.

Exactly, which is why I appreciate wfh so much, because the reduced commute time means I've had more time to establish a healthy long term social life which will last beyond my current contract. I also appreciate the extra time I get to spend with my loved ones, which, as you rightly point out, is very important for mental health. Mandatory return to office ruins all of this, and taking into consideration what you said, should really be considered a threat to public health and wellbeing.

While that's true, it doesn't need to be 40 hours a week of co-workers. You can fill some of that with family and friends.

As much as people act like they don’t need contact with other humans

They get it elsewhere like a real social life outside work.

I speak to another human daily when I go get some bread at the corner.

I moved to where I lived so I could walk to work. 6 months later the pandemic hit and I more or less spent 80-90% of the past 5 years alone in my apartment. I miss working in the office because I miss just being able to talk to close coworkers/friends, no slack, no zoom, just walking over and if they weren't focused chatting or discussing and just having social interaction

Fuck, I miss the walk to work and interacting with people

There was lots of shitty stuff about working in the office but damn I do miss it

Only time in my adult life I managed to be regularly hygenic tbh

Good coffee is a major perk. Work from home haters always bring up how important it is to socialise during "coffee breaks" but how enjoyable is it to drink that burnt ass-taste budget watery joe while repeating "nice weather" to random people?

I don't need work to be social. Sounds like a skill issue to me.

Hey friend, I get you. People don't need to agree with you, but I think it's wild the number of downvotes you receive for simply stating your own personal desires.

I work at a job where I'm not expected to be in the office. But we still go, based on personal preferences. There are some people who never go, and that's totally accepted. And others, who prefer the separation of work and home, and being around people, and that's okay too.

To me, our current arrangements of hybrid work, as you feel, is fantastic. (Working way more than we need to, just to feed the owner classes notwithstanding)

It's nice to have the option for both. Sometimes the slog of driving there is too much.

It's not for everyone, and I know what you're saying but "feeling sloppy and desperate" is certainly not a universal experience. As a single anecdotal example, I've been working from home for over 5 years now and personally feel like I get a lot more pros than cons from it. Sure, I'm lazier with my personal hygiene and don't bother to dress up (during the working day when it's only me who can smell me), but I still go outside and go to events and talk to people outside of work, I just have more energy left to do that in my evenings and weekends now 🤷

I am not against working from home I just prefer working with my colleagues in the office