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Guess we knew this would probably happen. Let’s run through some of the basic reasons right upfront:
- Some people aren’t made to work from home: Some people thrive off an office, and they don’t have the tech, routines, and discipline to work at home consistently.
- Familial responsibilities: Now you might be juggling your career, your partner’s career, kids in online school, kids running around, etc… and we’re talking about an apartment or a 2/2 house. Not everyone has a palatial estate.
- Layoffs: Those are common as revenue models erode. Now the first three bullets here point to “stress,” but the more “stressed” we are, our trust in others tends to struggle as well.
- We can’t see the decision-makers: You might have had an in-office job where you never spoke to decision-makers (common), but you at least saw them racing around hallways and whatnot. Now you don’t see them. You have no idea what they are discussing on their video calls. Is the axe falling? What’s happening? Are priorities shifting on a dime and we don’t even know?
- This thing seems never-ending: We’re about to hit a year.
- We lose the cues: We can’t see as much about facial reactions, about wine and pizza spread out in the office (“They pulled an all-nighter, or maybe they had sex in the conference room”)…
