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by arcticbull 1399 days ago
Nah, I miss working with other humans. Spending every day in a closet typing by myself honestly sucks. That won't be true for everyone, some folks will have kids at home - but even those, I have to imagine will (a) get tired of the kids or (b) have their kids off at school and be in my situation. I've started biking to work (voluntarily) since there's a lot of flexibility, it's great to get some sunshine and fresh air, and also see other humans.

Living your life in a 12ft radius of your bed ain't great lol.

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Move to a bigger place then! The beauty of wfh is that you can live wherever you want! I have a very nice home office… my wfh setup is by many orders of magnitude better than what the office used to offer: better desk (nice electric standing desk), better chair, better monitors, better headset/mic, a quiet space!
Moving to a bigger place won't put my coworkers into it lol
If you need a social life get in touch with your friends and family! Working from home you will get much more time to spend with them!
I spend plenty of time with friends and family after work - and on weekends of course - however I spend 9am to 7pm in isolation. This is the part I am referencing. I'm completely open to it not being a problem for you, but I don't like it.

With respect, the question was what about I am going to do.

I guess this is a problem without a solution that will make everyone happy. On my side 8 hours without a single human interaction are my ideal working day (unfortunately that rarely happens since I have many meetings or people reaching out on teams).
And I appreciate the flexibility! I don't want to force people to come in especially since I want to keep the ability to work from Hawaii for a week.