Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community

[kinggordon@lemmy.world]

Dude you need to up your life a bit. Dontchathink?

[madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm sorry to hear this.
What makes you say this?

[damage@feddit.it]

During the pandemic my partner stayed inside for about a month, I was the only person she interacted with. I kept going to work because I was an "essential" worker (not really), so I kinda envied her, but by the end of that month she was going a bit crazy.

[isthisanai@lemmy.world]

‍️ I can make friends at work just fine

[sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I've always thought that researchers should plot outcomes against commute times.

[nabdad@lemmy.world]

My oldest has no children and works fully remote.

When the pandemic started, his company decided to have everyone work from home. They very quickly discovered that they were just as productive, and the owner decided it made sense to dump their office space.

A group of employees decided to go on vacation together, while still working. Since they are all remote, they didn't actually have to work from home. They got an Airbnb with good Internet, worked during the day, and saw the sites and had fun together after work.

If you're remote and you miss that sense of community, reach out to your coworkers and ask them if they want to hang out after work. It's possible they don't and you'll be disappointed. It's also possible that they feel the same way but didn't know they could do something about it.

Either you'll be the hero that saved everyone from their solitary existence, or you'll have to accept that they don't want to hang out with you.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Dude what? It was a great show!

[madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Eh, I became a stay at home mom over the pandemic, and while I've never worked in an office, but on the shop floor, I do miss the shenanigans. But its almost like a trauma bond, where its like, hey, we're all stuck here, best make the nest of it and try snd have fun while we are here.

I'm fully isolated now, and at this point terrified of crowds, when i never was before.

Not arguing at all people who can work remotely shouldn't, they should, for a litter or reasons. But I do miss my coworkers from my employee owned factory where culture was held in high standard. Im also not arguing this should be the only place one finds community, I'm only saying, for a person like me, it helped sometimes to joke around on the new guy or collectively bitch about issues at work or hear other folks problems and offer advice or help when I could.

We socialized outside of work too. I can't get invited to a party, or a wedding, or anything if I literally don't know anyone. I've only ever known how to make friends in structured environments. But that's wierdo me.

[felixcress@lemmy.world]

Well if YOU can, that's all that matters.

[saleh@feddit.org]

Quality over quantity.

Great places to socialize are sports-clubs, social-clubs, volunteering, activism, religious communities...

I'd much rather spend five hours a week distributed over two or three occasions with people i share interests with, than with people i share work with. Meanwhile at work i am mostly engaged in small talk, that is quite repetitive as i see the people every day and i have to guard what i can say and what i cannot say more than in other circles.

[madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Maybe they used the wrong language. You roll your eyes, so you don't hate life, heard.

So then why, genuinely, do you reject the idea of community with such conviction?

[scytale@lemmy.zip]

Another person already said it, but the issue is the lack of third spaces. You don’t need to physically go to an office to get a sense of community. Working remotely makes it easier to get a sense of community if there are third spaces because you’re not stuck in a building for 8 hours. If your only source of community is your workplace, then you have other problems.

[ideonek@piefed.social]

No, I think that's the fair take. But to me, it's similar when people say "Studies may teach me a thing, but I'm glad I went there because I met all this people"... Yes, you spent X years there. You'd probably bound with someone over that time if it was a different place as well. It's perfectly understandable to have a need for structure. I just wish that work isnt that sole source of structure in most people live.

[peoplebeproblems@midwest.social]

And then I'm a single father, so I'm just fucked!

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

For a lot of disabled people it’s remote work or starve to death.

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

Nah there's no propaganda that will get people to think working in the office every day is in any way better to having freedom again

[felixcress@lemmy.world]

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[jjjalljs@ttrpg.network]

Ownership will abuse labor as much as it can. Sometimes to make more profit. Sometimes for murkier reasons. I think some management are just stupid and they'd hurt the company to follow their unfounded feelings.

Labor should organize.

[isthisanai@lemmy.world]

What does this even mean ?

You're mad at me because I'm an enjoyable person who gets along with co workers now? Are you saying I should feel sorry for people that can't make friends outside the Internet?
I'm genuinely confused at what your point is here.

[blattrules@lemmy.world]

I’m a childless man and I don’t miss the sense of community one bit.