These past few months have been the best ones of my life. I do not, in any way, shape, or form, miss having to commute in traffic to arrive at a noisy office just in time for some inane stand up meeting (the first of many through the day). The enormous improvement in quality of life by working at home is well worth any tradeoffs in social isolation. After all, one should socialize with those that you truly have a connection wth, rather than a connection of convenience - fraught with politics and risk of betrayal - at the office.
Hi Ed. Thanks for your comment. I'm glad that you are enjoying working from home and agree with you that the improvement in quality of life is worth the tradeoffs in social isolation for a lot of people.
But there are numerous studies that show that those tradeoffs are not worth it for others. I reference some of these studies in the hyperlinks in my article. I guess it just depends where you are in life and what your office and/or work from home circumstances are like. Everyone's are going to be different.
These past few months have been the best ones of my life. I do not, in any way, shape, or form, miss having to commute in traffic to arrive at a noisy office just in time for some inane stand up meeting (the first of many through the day). The enormous improvement in quality of life by working at home is well worth any tradeoffs in social isolation. After all, one should socialize with those that you truly have a connection wth, rather than a connection of convenience - fraught with politics and risk of betrayal - at the office.
Hi Ed. Thanks for your comment. I'm glad that you are enjoying working from home and agree with you that the improvement in quality of life is worth the tradeoffs in social isolation for a lot of people.
But there are numerous studies that show that those tradeoffs are not worth it for others. I reference some of these studies in the hyperlinks in my article. I guess it just depends where you are in life and what your office and/or work from home circumstances are like. Everyone's are going to be different.