Too many people think that what works for them must be ideal, and should work for everyone. I honestly think that most people will not thrive in a fully remote, work-from-home environment.
Too many people think that what works for them must be ideal, and should work for everyone.
Agreed.
I honestly think that most people will not thrive in a fully remote, work-from-home environment.
That may well be true. But there's clearly a non-negligible group that swing very much the opposite way. What we're looking for is flexibility, not one-size-fits-all.
> What we're looking for is flexibility, not one-size-fits-all.
And yet people look at me like I have a third eye sometimes (including several posts up in this exact thread) just because I, like many people, don't like working from home.
I can certainly understand that preference, even though I don't share it. I will, however, say that, when phrases like "humans are social animals" get deployed, it's quite easy to read them as implied criticism of those of us who need substantial amounts of time alone.
I am one of those people who need substantial amounts of time alone too. That doesn't mean that I'm not a social animal though, and that there isn't some balance of social contact that is desired. There's only a very tiny percentage of people who truly desire no human contact at all (think hermits); merely being introverted still does not get you close to that level.
In my situation, I feel like the dynamic has changed, and that's part of what bothers me. The team has always had a tendency toward flexible scheduling, since we do have some fully-remote workers living elsewhere. A couple years ago, that meant that someone might be out a couple hours, maybe once a week. Now it means "I've got an errand at 2, so I'll wfh today".
The other members of the team seem happy with the arrangement. Maybe it would work better for my situation if I had a good home workspace available to me, too. There are other things I'm not happy with there, and I'm leaning toward thinking that my time there has just run its course.
