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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by watwut on Sunday February 05, 2023 @06:02PM (#34670741)
The kind of person who can't make and keep friends unless they are forced to work in the same office won't. It that person could keeping touch and would pick friends able to keep in touch, they would keep.in touch with whoever they studied with or was in their hometown.

But, we are talking about someone who need coercion to make friends. And they can be nice super ethical person, but there is that skill they don't have.

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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by dmitriid on Monday February 06, 2023 @01:57AM (#34674201)
At any point in life I keep in touch regularly with about 40-50 people.

Most of them are from outside work. Because "but you spend 8 hours with them every day" is not true for most people. I now work with completely different people than I those I worked 3-4-10 years ago. I have friendships significantly longer than that, and I didn't have to work with them side by side all this time.

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