You can’t fix underpurposed work missions with overspecified work contexts

Turning the screws on WFH is the same pathology as micromanagement, bureaucratic process overhead etc. 

If you’re doing mission right people will *want* to divide time between workplace and remote correctly without coercion

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Sounds like you’ve never liked your coworkers enough to enjoy spending a lot of time around them

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That’s orthogonal. I’m not sociable enough to spend much time with either work friends or personal friends. 

How sociable you are is a personality trait. Where you express it is a function of how work is structured relative to life logistics.

I’ll reframe: part of the reason I loved my last job at a company was because I enjoyed being around the people there. The mission wasn’t that important to me. Being around those people motivated me to work. Going remote decreased my motivation, and I eventually left.

Good personal data for you, but it seems obvious to me that vast resistance to unwinding WFH cannot possibly have anything to do with sudden shift in distribution of how much people like/dislike hanging with coworkers. It’s a work/life logistics incentives thing. We got bumped to a better equilibrium for most people