Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?

Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by sircastor on Sunday February 05, 2023 @04:26PM (#34669616)

We tend to make friends early in life at school or church, but those friendships are because there's a very wide pool of individuals in a single location. Literally everyone in a geographic area who is your age. That inherently tends to include people of similar economic status and cultural background. You have this huge group of people and can pick your preferred subset from them.

Walking into a job, literally the only thing you have in common with these people is an employer. While time spent together is an important component of building relationships, it lacks the other substantially important pieces of relationships: Common interests, similar backgrounds, similar worldviews, etc. (Though it doesn't mean they're inherently absent)

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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by Joeri on Sunday February 05, 2023 @04:41PM (#34669775)

Similar backgrounds and worldviews are not necessary for a solid friendship, as long as you have shared interests and mutual respect.

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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by kaba0 on Monday February 06, 2023 @03:36AM (#34674836)

If you are working in the same position then surely you share quite a lot of shared interests, likely have the same degree even. I had plenty of great conversations about different topics of CS with my coworkers (even though I’m way more “academically inclined” then most of them are) at every workplace. Sure, not everyone is interested in their own field of work, but imo that’s then the greater problem, one really shouldn’t waste half of his/her waking life on something they entirely dislike.

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