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I'm 28 and can't wait until I get back to the office. A lot of people like the social aspect of the job and not everybody decides to live a miserable commute away from their office

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I'm 41 and glad to see the back of it. My commute was never miserable, but it was always wasted time. A lot of people also don't like the social aspect of the job, and the fact that it's been the default since basically forever has meant that those people have been under what I might call (somewhat hyperbolically) the tyranny of extroversion. I've been noticeably less stressed since I noped out of the office last year.

It's also worth bearing in mind that if you do want to be social, you can be social outside office hours no matter whether the job's in-person or remote. I can't choose not to be social in a face-to-face environment without suffering professional consequences.

Depending on the job, team building and social trust are important aspects of a well functioning team. If you truly do work alone, fine. But most people don't.

I don't work alone. Most of what I do involves getting other people to change what they're doing. It's high-interaction work, for the most part. And it works just fine remotely.

Not everyone is in their 20s in an unfamiliar city.

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