Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults

Re:Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among... by nox101 on Monday August 19, 2024 @02:37PM (#41293546)

For me it's explained by

(1) less shopping because I order online

(2) more entertainment/distraction from online stuff (movies, youtube, tech news, anime, streamers, ....)

(3) less office friends IMO partly because WFH. It's not that I'm spending time at home because I working, it's that I'm not going out with co-workers after work because we aren't starting the evening together like we used to.

(3b) Same as above, I'm already at home because WFH so it's an effort to "go out". Where as when it was WFO I'd already be "out" and then stay out somewhere before coming home.

Honestly I hate WFH. I know it's not coming back but "my" life is definitely worse because of WFH. I get that that's not true for many others.

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Re:Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among... by SoftTalker on Monday August 19, 2024 @03:52PM (#41294088)

> going out with co-workers after work

Is this really a common thing? Because I've never experienced it in over 30 years of professional work. Going out to lunch? Yes. But at 5:00 everyone goes their separate ways.

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Re:Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among... by throwaway22032 on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:37AM (#41300493)

WFH is fast food.

It's more convenient and cheaper but worse for you.

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Re:Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among... by phelddagrif on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @08:11AM (#41309467)

yes the extra 2 hours a day I get to spend with my wife and children is terrible for me. it's so obvious now.

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