<story><title>Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker</title><url>https://www.seanblanda.com/our-remote-work-future-is-going-to-suck/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doopy-loopy2</author><text>The truth is nothing has changed for the younger generation.&lt;p&gt;They still want to live and work in downtown cities. They still want to go to the office and mingle&amp;#x2F;network.&lt;p&gt;HN is an echo chamber.</text></item><item><author>DEADBEEFC0FFEE</author><text>I agree.  I&amp;#x27;m also in the later stages of my career (30 years of work), but still have a way to go.&lt;p&gt;I like WFH a lot more than I like commuting and working in the office.  As a youngster though I loved the cut and thrust of a metropolis.  Especially the adventures after work.&lt;p&gt;I hope the current situation creates a permanent inflection in companies attitudes, which enables me to perhaps move out if this big city and find remote work for my last 10-15 years of work.</text></item><item><author>tosser0001</author><text>I’m a lot closer to the end of my career than the beginning and am hoping to ride this WFH thing out as long as possible.&lt;p&gt;But if I were younger I personally would be kind of bummed out for a couple of reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. It’s just a totally different vibe working with close colleagues in person. Work was just a fun place to be when I was young (and single.)&lt;p&gt;2. Getting a feel for what else is going on in the company and who might be good to work with seems a lot more difficult. Just prior to the whole COVID shutdown I had been temporarily shifted to a team to work out some specific issues. That has changed and I’m sort of stuck on this team for a bit.&lt;p&gt;Working on a less interesting thing I feel less connection to my team and much more like a contractor.&lt;p&gt;Finding other opportunities within the same company, where  you want to have a feel for the personalities involved just feels tougher.&lt;p&gt;It will be interesting to see how this shakes out if it keeps up for a lot longer. It just feels like some places will suffer from a lack of cross-pollination.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thebradbain</author><text>As someone who is part of this generation of young professionals, I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s so clear cut. I&amp;#x27;ve got a pretty active social life, my own circle of close friends, a robust professional network, and I live in an urban, walkable neighborhood in a large city. Yet I, and most of my friends, acquaintances, and classmates fresh out of college (&amp;lt; 5 years) have no interest in centering our lives around the workplace, and many (me included) have taken or been searching for fully&amp;#x2F;part-remote jobs (and not just in tech) even pre-covid.&lt;p&gt;I enjoy my colleagues and work environment (and wouldn&amp;#x27;t trade it for the world now that I&amp;#x27;m mostly remote!), love to chat with them and keep in touch, but at the end of the day I already have my own friends with whom I have stronger bonds than the workplace, and I&amp;#x27;d rather spend my free time with them rather than endless happy hours with work colleagues who are, in the grand scheme of things, really only present in my life for the duration of a job. Coincidentally, some of my favorite coworkers have this same outlook.&lt;p&gt;I concede this is all anecdotal, yes, but so is your generalization. I personally believe much of this youngest generation of professionals, of which I am part, already has relatively established social networks due to social media that someone even 10 years ago entering a new job in a new city would not have, hence the less need to rely on the workplace for a social life.&lt;p&gt;If you ask me, the future of the workplace isn&amp;#x27;t fully-remote or fully in-person, it&amp;#x27;s an office where everyone comes in 2-3 days a week, as necessary, and working remote or at-home the rest of the time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker</title><url>https://www.seanblanda.com/our-remote-work-future-is-going-to-suck/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doopy-loopy2</author><text>The truth is nothing has changed for the younger generation.&lt;p&gt;They still want to live and work in downtown cities. They still want to go to the office and mingle&amp;#x2F;network.&lt;p&gt;HN is an echo chamber.</text></item><item><author>DEADBEEFC0FFEE</author><text>I agree.  I&amp;#x27;m also in the later stages of my career (30 years of work), but still have a way to go.&lt;p&gt;I like WFH a lot more than I like commuting and working in the office.  As a youngster though I loved the cut and thrust of a metropolis.  Especially the adventures after work.&lt;p&gt;I hope the current situation creates a permanent inflection in companies attitudes, which enables me to perhaps move out if this big city and find remote work for my last 10-15 years of work.</text></item><item><author>tosser0001</author><text>I’m a lot closer to the end of my career than the beginning and am hoping to ride this WFH thing out as long as possible.&lt;p&gt;But if I were younger I personally would be kind of bummed out for a couple of reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. It’s just a totally different vibe working with close colleagues in person. Work was just a fun place to be when I was young (and single.)&lt;p&gt;2. Getting a feel for what else is going on in the company and who might be good to work with seems a lot more difficult. Just prior to the whole COVID shutdown I had been temporarily shifted to a team to work out some specific issues. That has changed and I’m sort of stuck on this team for a bit.&lt;p&gt;Working on a less interesting thing I feel less connection to my team and much more like a contractor.&lt;p&gt;Finding other opportunities within the same company, where  you want to have a feel for the personalities involved just feels tougher.&lt;p&gt;It will be interesting to see how this shakes out if it keeps up for a lot longer. It just feels like some places will suffer from a lack of cross-pollination.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spydum</author><text>An echo chamber? I find one of the more compelling reasons for being on HN is the strange cross-over and variety of posters (age, industry, geography, etc).</text></comment>