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Are we missing the point?
No. It is not about commute times.
Many say working from home is more productive because we save time on the commute. I mean, yes, but I doubt that is the real reason.
Jacqueline, my college friend, suggested that professionals working on silo tasks and without external touchpoints [read: clients, partners, vendors, marketing events] need not be in the office. Their presence in the office is irrelevant to their output.
Again, I agree.
But I think that is not it.
Avoiding their toxic bosses?
Maybe… but still, not quite.
Deepest thought… unrevealed
One of my college mates has been asked to RTO recently.
It killed him. Well, he did not say it explicitly. It was bloody obvious. He bitched about his annoying boss, noise-polluting colleagues, and irrelevant meetings. It got to a point where we suspect there was zero value in his work.
Dan denied.
The strange thing is… he loves what he is doing as a marketing professional. He works on events and social media, so he gets to…
