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Someone should map the sentiment in HN comments on working from home during Coronavirus articles, I bet it would look interesting. I feel like they're getting gradually more negative. (I personally can't wait to go back to the office.)

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I'm not sure it's necessarily more negative as that people who resignedly accepted the current situation are seeing that the "new normal," while not 100% remote in most cases, is probably often not going to be entire teams working together in one location. Which means, more or less, that teams will have to work as if everyone is remote to be effective. And that's a big change.

What if your employer did the same as Twitter etc and declared working from home was allowed forever. Could you imagine moving somewhere you’d love to be - with excellent internet - finding new friends there and being happier than other situation?

If the new normal world is too dangerous to sit in an office together, how on earth would you find new friends if you moved?

It doesn’t make sense.

Doing stuff outdoors or by other means staying apart

Working from home is already allowed at my company, but if they moved to everyone working from home indefinitely I would absolutely leave the company, even if it meant taking a significant pay cut and changing careers. I don't want to stare at a computer screen without in-person interaction for 8 hours/day.

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