Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds

Re:Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds by Bayart on Monday February 19, 2024 @11:09AM (#39431336)

Much like iancmceachern, my experience is the opposite of yours. The office forces me into human interactions I wouldn't have chosen of my own free will, and WFH significantly increases the time I spend on relationships that matter, those I've chosen. A lot of it has to do with living in a dense urban area and cultivating a circle of friends that I can meet with little to no planning.

I think it's got a lot to do with one's personality, priorities (whether to live in a dense area or not), interests (how big of a share work takes in the things you enjoy) and willingness to proactively cultivate human interactions.

Like other things related to WFH, there doesn't seem to be a one-size-fits-all answer and I like it. Having more room to allow more varied types of individualities to co-exist freely is a good thing in my opinion.

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Re:Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds by nox101 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:09AM (#39442995)

We should apply the same logic to other things

Kids should school from home. They don't get to choose who their classmates are so they're being forced to have human interactions who they haven't chosen of their own free will.

Colleges should all be remote. Same reasons.

I'm relatively confident that interacting with others is kind of the point of school and college and I'm just as confident that many (not all) of those same reasons apply to work. WFH ignores those reasons.

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