[wfhBrian]

Sorry it sounds like you don't have a satisfying life outside of work, and that has nothing to do with WFH vs RTO.

Learning to WFH is as much a skill as learning to operate in an office environment. The difference, when you learn the former you also have increased freedom.

[Aurornis]

> Sorry it sounds like you don't have a satisfying life outside of work,

When you spend 40 hours of your week doing something, it's going to influence you.

No amount of "satisfying life outside of work" can make up for a workplace that you don't enjoy. That's true for toxic workplaces, it's true for people who can't stand in-office work, and it's true for people who can't stand remote.

It's unfair to try to blame it all on the person's personal life. Different people work well in different environments. The WFH maximalists and in-office maximalists need to stop acting high and mighty like their way flawless.

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

I’m always surprised to see these accusations. “Oh you don’t like not seeing human beings for 40-60 hours a week? You must not have a life or any friends.” WTF. Is it really that unfathomable that other people are different from you?

[ianbutler]

You don't like remote work so your life must be unfulfilled is such a horseshit take. People have different preferences.

[jasonhansel]

Plenty of people enjoy in-person interactions with their colleagues, and it's quite reasonable for them to prefer an environment where such interactions are possible.

People aren't obligated to shut up and tolerate working conditions they dislike. Changing their lives outside of work won't make them enjoy those working conditions more.

[jeltz]

I have a very satisfying and social life outside work but working from home still sucks.

[porlb]

Yeah but you’re an office worker, probably not generating any sincerely net new ideas and just performing routine data entry to keep up rate of US dollar exchange.

Any net new work is too abstract and complex for the HN CRUD engineer crowd to be central too.

Go find a local job onsite. No one is going to miss you at your office because we all know implicitly this is just busy work to preserve nation state status quo.

[splatzone]

You can make your point more generously than this