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The pandemic dramatically improved my life. My income doubled, I got a way better career job at a workplace with permanent work from home. I finished a certificate I was working on. No one in my family or friend group got seriously ill with it or died. It was a tragic time but I'm finally living the life I always wished I was - I totally get it. I can't really talk to anyone about it. I'm terrified work from home will get clawed back. My wife took an in office job and I hardly ever see her anymore with her work hours.
What shits me off the most about the push to return to the office by so many employers is that there's zero logic to it (only benefits, from what I've seen.) I wish they'd just come out and say "we just want to be able to monitor and micromanage you at all times, also we need to justify this building lease we've signed." Fuck the HR script, just be honest about how little you care about your employees' happiness and preferences, even when WFH arrangements have been proven to only provide benefits to both parties (the issue is nuanced, I get that, but for the most part, work from home is very popular because workers largely prefer it.)
I'm being overly-dramatic here, but seeing one of the very few upsides to the pandemic being thrown away for no reason legitimately pisses me off. I've worked for myself for years now (as someone on the spectrum, I'm just incompatible with the illogical rules and weird workplace politics a lot of people either don't have a problem with, or are able to more effectively tolerate, as my varied job history will tell anyone), but if work from home was the normalized approach, I'd have likely been able to hold a normal job. I have seen a majority of my friends return to the office, despite things working really goddamn well for both them and their workplaces during WFH. None are particularly happy about it, but also none of them seem to care enough to raise the issue.
I feel the same, I get so annoyed when companies, governments, and anyone else uses dumbass excuses to avoid saying things directly.
I'd probably get even more frustrated if they openly said they don't give a fuck, but not by much