Nobody wants to work anymore

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A lot of businesses who were dead set against remote working suddenly embraced it in a big way around here.

There's more and more traffic as more people are returning to offices but there's still a lot of employment ads for remote workers.

My SO worked from here at the house for the first couple months... She has sunce gone back to the office - but she is the only one there 99 % of the time and doesn' t have to physically interact with anyone...

We have embraced our hermitage.....

You embraced your hermitage? I positively fucking reveled in it.

To no one's surprise -- except, apparently, my boss's -- our office was, if anything, more focused and on-the-ball working remotely than we usually were while sitting stupefied at the office day after day. People were taking care of business, yes, but also themselves, their families, their homes. Hobbies were explored, exercise regimens were taken up, shit got done. People were happy.

Now we're back in the office full time, and a palpable funk has fallen over everyone. I suspect the only reason is that my employer owns the  building and wants to "get his money's worth". If they leased, I doubt we would have returned to the office full time, and we would still have a more flexible approach to work.