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My gf basically does 3-4 hours of work a day including meetings and then literally naps or watches TV all day. She's taught herself how to crochet and she's done like half a cardigan in a week because she has so much down time

Boy i sure fucking wish I could get a gig like that. Instead i'm paid 2/3rds as much to sweat my dick, balls and ass off in a kitchen, standing all day, one unpaid break that i'm forced to take. 30 minute commute each way.

I can't even look for work like that because even if I could find a job i couldn't pass a drug test. I want endless, hell like torment for the people responsible for marijuana drug tests precluding people from employment in fucking 2025

like the four day work week's benefits to productivity, any conclusion of this sort (i.e. easing the boot actually helps both sides) will be summarily disregarded because the point is labor discipline

okay but like have you thought about the poor poor landlords who will lose out on rent for commercial districts

I like not being tied to an office but I really enjoy interactions with people. I quite liked working remotely in medtech where I was bouncing from hospital, cadaver lab etc

Amazingly we had a HR ghoul organizational hour about "worklife health and well being" with an open chat today and some people in the organization posted gems like:

You should make sure that people don't suffer from boredout (a new term for not having enough to do, supposedly just as bad as a burnout)

People being allowed to do remote and hybrid work has been the single worst thing in "worklife health and well being" as it ruins cohesion in the workplace

The HR ghouls themselves made a whole speech about "sick leave culture" and how they are trying to combat that. The organization is basically the entire healthcare and social sector of a huge area and the conditions suck in most places, people have been let go, the workloads are unbearable across the board and the environments we are in are open offices, old buildings with mold issues etc. Yet they talk about "sick leave culture" like there are no material things making people sick. They could start by mentioning covid even once, but they won't. They could embrace remote work without mentioning how performance must stay the same every time it comes up. Everyone who does remote days performs better on it.

But what is most surprising are these supposedly fellow workers who anonymously shit on those who need remote work to even be able to work. I bet they are medical field types because those rehab people, therapists etc. often harbor the most toxic views on other humans and muh performance. I could have posted something myself about how not everyone thrives in the same environment, but decided not to in case they can somehow see who is behind the comments.

I like going for planning and meetings but everything else can be done at home. I had more time for after work hobbies when I was home, now I use it to commute

Yeah I have one friend who still works remote and she's doing really well in her personal life and won't give it up unless the other option is unemployment. I really miss not having to commute, and I'm sure the environment misses it more than I do.

It doesn't make me thrive, I hated it. The office was about all the social interaction I ever got and my alcoholism got a million times worse when it got taken away for WFM. I'm not saying we should make policy based on my neuroses but until a company pays my rent because they're using my apartment as an office I will never consider doing it.

This is basically me. I do all my work remote apart from client visits that are either in office or somewhere around town and I thrive doing this. But I only get to do this because my current manager gets my type of neurospicy and the public sector wants to cut down on office costs, in the private sector it's all RTO now.

I could not do this work otherwise and I dread the day they decide to end this. I have no trust that this will continue. It is the first time in my life where I've felt like I can do paid work without burning myself out.

I schedule my client work for the afternoons and in the morning I just go from bed to the laptop in my jammies and a cup of tea and start from emails etc. I always have more clients and more downtime than my office loving coworkers (who I love to see in short burts).

A whole office day feels like a spesific type of torture in getting bored and faking it to me. It drains me.

The only day of the week that I hate with a passion is the one where the manager wants us all to come to the main office for a team meeting in the morning which means waking up very early and an hour long commute both ways. Every single one of these meetings have been ones that could have been an email or a Teams meeting.

I miss it soooo much. My current job is hybrid, but everyone is so office brained it makes it hard to keep a consistent schedule. So basically they ruin it. Ugh I miss full remote.

I find it very strange that remote work does not enforce atomization of labor and have a chilling effect on labor organizing. I would think a brain in an individual cell where you can turn on and off its access to other brains at will would be the ideal work arrangement from the boss's perspective. Whereas a company cannot control where its assembled workers meet up after work

Can anyone find the actual study? The fact that I couldn't easily find it myself and the disclaimer that "This article is based on verified sources and supported by editorial technologies" makes me suspicious this might have been fabricated out of whole cloth by an LLM.