<story><title>We Can&apos;t Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons</title><url>https://blog.davidtate.org/we-cant-let-people-work-from-home-for-stupid-reasons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecf</author><text>On the contrary, I feel it deserves LESS respect. Treating the office as an escape from an undesirable at-home situation and then having the audacity to try to force more people to be in-person is incredibly selfish behavior.&lt;p&gt;If these people truly need that social interaction, how about putting more effort into community&amp;#x2F;personal relationships instead of workplace relationships?</text></item><item><author>lastofthemojito</author><text>I think a lot of the responses to the straw man&amp;#x27;s questions are reasonable and thoughtful.  But I think this sentiment:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to change the way I work, I just want people to join me in the office. My kids are driving me crazy. Is it weird to say I&amp;#x27;m lonely; I miss my office friends.&lt;p&gt;Deserves more respect.  There are lot of types of people out there, and it seems like at least some of them are energized by being surrounded by smart people doing interesting work.  For whatever reason, for some folks, exchanging Slack messages with those same smart people isn&amp;#x27;t similarly energizing compared to overhearing and jumping into interesting in-person conversations, etc.  Maybe the tech giants need to be very accommodating to remote work in order to maintain their massive workforces, but I think a lot of typical companies could just say &amp;quot;we prefer being in-office&amp;quot; and find sufficient local folks to make that happen.  That won&amp;#x27;t be for everyone.  But there might be a sizeable enough cohort that performs better in the office that it&amp;#x27;ll be a good option for some companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alextheparrot</author><text>We should respect honesty more.  At least then we can talk about the real issues, like maybe finding relationships in a non-work context.&lt;p&gt;We can call this person selfish and attend to the root malice only because they were honest.  If they just contrived a reason to further their goal state, then they are being both duplicitous and selfish, which seems to be something we should respect less?</text></comment>
<story><title>We Can&apos;t Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons</title><url>https://blog.davidtate.org/we-cant-let-people-work-from-home-for-stupid-reasons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecf</author><text>On the contrary, I feel it deserves LESS respect. Treating the office as an escape from an undesirable at-home situation and then having the audacity to try to force more people to be in-person is incredibly selfish behavior.&lt;p&gt;If these people truly need that social interaction, how about putting more effort into community&amp;#x2F;personal relationships instead of workplace relationships?</text></item><item><author>lastofthemojito</author><text>I think a lot of the responses to the straw man&amp;#x27;s questions are reasonable and thoughtful.  But I think this sentiment:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to change the way I work, I just want people to join me in the office. My kids are driving me crazy. Is it weird to say I&amp;#x27;m lonely; I miss my office friends.&lt;p&gt;Deserves more respect.  There are lot of types of people out there, and it seems like at least some of them are energized by being surrounded by smart people doing interesting work.  For whatever reason, for some folks, exchanging Slack messages with those same smart people isn&amp;#x27;t similarly energizing compared to overhearing and jumping into interesting in-person conversations, etc.  Maybe the tech giants need to be very accommodating to remote work in order to maintain their massive workforces, but I think a lot of typical companies could just say &amp;quot;we prefer being in-office&amp;quot; and find sufficient local folks to make that happen.  That won&amp;#x27;t be for everyone.  But there might be a sizeable enough cohort that performs better in the office that it&amp;#x27;ll be a good option for some companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Grimm1</author><text>For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, without the word option being emphasized here, yours is an equally selfish desire because it brings harm to that person or group of people who prefer the office experience. I liked working in an office, sorry you don&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>