A Perfect Storm Of Return To Office Stress
Modern times have laid bare company tomfoolery — it’s time to take back control of your life, stay sane, and try to be happy once again. Somehow.
A part cathartic rant, part emotional plee today about the state of the world, how employer care for the ‘wellbeing’ of their employees is really just cash based (no surprises there, I’m afraid), and primarily how they should just let us all continue to work from home because things are bad enough already.
Let’s dig in, literally, and do stay for the bit where I say I care about you — because I really do.
It’s part of the reason why I write these things in the first place.
The Shadow of the Mushroom Tower
Many companies are requesting that their employee drones return to their company cattle pens at the office.
This necessarily brings forth the unfortunate prospect of not only decreasing work efficiency for the company, but also making employees extremely unhappy as they’ve generally had a more tolerable, lower stress, and generally better time of it as regards work¹ over the first two pandemic years².
With recent changes to the world, that frankly keep me awake at night in the same way that living under the shadow of the mushroom tower did in the late…
