I still remember several months into the pandemic how my then-company’s VP brought up how we can go back into the office, but we wouldn’t be able to meet in the same room or be in close proximity to each other, and so any/all communications would still need to be done via MS Teams.
I think even he realized how ridiculous that sounded because there was a momentary pause before he finished his sentence.
One pro about working with the rest of your coworkers in flesh is socialization. You get to talk with people during the day.
At home it’s you, alone (if you live alone).
Of corse, some folks has it better working alone. I wouldn’t have.
And, all work cannot be done from home.
Problem is, when you sit there with headphones all day, you won’t do much socializing. Often all it takes, is just one colleague who can’t make it to the office or who works at a different office…
The whisper voice is a thing now since people are going back to their capitalist-dystopian, employer friendly open floor offices.
We missed them so fucking much!
The company I work at has a couple of buildings spread out over a larger campus. Before COVID, you’d just go over to the other building for meetings. Now nobody can be arsed to walk across any more. But we still have to come in because face to face communication is sooo important!
