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The problems many employees felt working from home for the past year — such as isolation and lack of social interaction with colleagues
If my colleagues want to put on business clothes and commute across town in traffic so they can ask each other how their weekend was between meetings, be my guest. Since my city has been opening up and I can interact outside with my friends (you know, people I choose to interact with lmao) my feelings of social isolation have mysteriously melted away.
One downside to a work from home model is that workers are completely atomized and estranged from one another, making collective action near impossible. Any institution that adopts work from home has basically nothing to fear from organized labor.
There might be different opportunities though. The company can't foster the fake-family-cult shit either, so there's less to fight against in a way. And it's way harder to monitor you. For instance I am posting in a communist forum about organized labor, on the clock
You can just use your phone or whatever, or another laptop, even a cheap ass old one if the remote access software is taking over your main one.
I mean, anyone daring to do eye tracking is just gonna have security cameras with audio in the office though.
And you can literally have multiple monitors with like, one pc on the right and one on the left, nobody's going to buy panoramic cameras or whatever. It'll look like you're staring at a screen and typing.
And if they do creepy ass fucked up shit, that's a good excuse to call up a coworker after hours and be like, damn, this is insane, we should join a union etc
For me we use whatever computer and VM into the work computer
I mean, fuck Google and all businesses of course but I would be one of those people who would say they don't like working from home all the time. I've started a new job since COVID so I only went into the office once to get my laptop. It's been really really hard and stressful to learn an entirely new job from home, I know I would have learned a lot more if I was in the office. And I do kinda want to do a good job because after 15 years I finally got out of the corporate world and finally got to do something I kinda like with an org I kinda believe in.
As someone who has all of my friends and family living in my old hometown hundreds of miles away, I actually would like to have a few weeks of "work from home time" I could fly back and work from there.
And this one is more personal... but I'm an introvert and my partner is an extrovert. I miss being able to leave work a little early and play some disc golf or just do whatever before going home. But now that I'm WFH it's like any time I want to leave the house, it becomes a whole thing (i.e. "oh if you're going to the park we should go together). It's been pretty tough on me ngl.
None of this is any sort of defense against these capitalists trying to spin WFH as perk, of course. In my ideal world I'd still be WFH like 2-3 days a week. Just want to offer perspective on why some folks might actually not want WFH all the time, you know?
I feel you on the relationship part. I know communication is hard but it's really worth being open about it with your partner. I think framing it exactly how you did here should be completely understandable, as long as you emphasize that you still love them (of course only if you do love them lol)
Everybody wants to work from home
I dunno if this is specific to my country but have you met all the fucking old people in office jobs? I got a lot of those and they see the home office as a punishment. And not like, for good reasons, like how our employer doesn't partake in the added heating / electricity costs and such or how it could possibly alienate workers or whatever, but just because they can't cope with the change.
It all boils down to being technically inept to no end (this is probably specific to where I live in the extent at least) so having to do literally anything with da computers they haven't done for 20 years stresses them and also that their routine is now different and they do not like it one bit. I could write an entire book on the arguments I've heard that working from home is the worst possible thing for them.
It boils down to them wanting an excuse to get away from their spouse for 40+ hours a week.
this would mean a greater demand for grubhub serfs, since at least some people wouldnt eat at work anymore
I would not be willing to come into the office more than twice a week and Thanksgiving-January needs to be a wfh month on top of that.
I’d be really hesitant to take a job that’s not full time remote in the first place.
Why would 4 weeks of wfh be anywhere near good enough? Especially somewhere like Google, so many people in tech expect regular wfh days.
I feel like this would just transition into no vacation time - any vacation time becomes “work from home”
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My Graeber-sense is tingling.
I visited my cousin earlier and working from their house was fun
