• Andreas@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like the problem here is that your colleagues are your only social circle outside of family rather than remote work being isolating. I think it’s unhealthy to have work relationships take up a significant part of your social contacts in general, because you’ll have a less rational perspective on your job when you associate it with friends. You might be reluctant to leave a job with poor compensation and hours because all of your friends are there, for example. My commute to work and back takes over 2 hours a day and it’s much easier to be peer-pressured into working overtime when you can see everyone else doing so. All of this only benefits the employer. I’d rather work remotely and spend the saved time with people I choose to be with.

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      1 year ago

      They’re not, I have a social group I speak to daily in discord, weekly over zoom and in person every couple of months.

      My commute is only 20 minutes each way so it isn’t terrible, I would probably have a worse opinon of it it took any longer.

      I’ve not been asked to do overtime so far, I’m not really too sure how I would respond if they asked me to do it.

      • Andreas@feddit.dk
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        1 year ago

        Oh that would be reasonable then, a 2 day on-site work hybrid schedule with 40 minutes of commute and no overtime certainly isn’t something I would complain about (unlike my current workplace, lol). I assumed the commute was much longer and also read the comment incorrectly because I read it as the new workplace was pushing for fully on-site work as well.