For years I thought the way we worked was just normal. Commuting 2 hours a day, pretending to look busy, sitting in meetings that could’ve been emails. Then we all went remote and I got more done. Had time to actually think. Could focus without someone tapping my shoulder every 20 minutes.
But now they’re calling everyone back and I’m supposed to believe my productivity suddenly requires me to be in a specific building again. At first I felt guilty like maybe I was being lazy. Then I started seeing the posts. Thousands of them. Everyone complaining about the same thing. Here’s what I realized: we’re all fighting this alone. I complain on Slack. You complain in anonymous surveys. Someone quits and finds another company that announces RTO six months later. We have the data. Remote work maintains productivity. So why are we accepting this?
Working remotely didn’t make me hate my job. It made me realize how much of my job was performative bullshit that had nothing to do with actual work. Now they want me to go back to performing. To pretend sitting in traffic is worth it for a hallway conversation twice a month. I was never more collaborative in the office. I was just forced to look collaborative.
Turns out that’s what they actually miss. The performance, not the results.
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