Full back to the office? I am experiencing it right now and honestly hate it. After work in quiet room alone for couple years I am forced to sit with another 11 individuals in open office. My mental state is really bad. There is only one solution - find new job. I even don’t care anymore about my stocks vesting in autumn.
Till you find a new job try listening to white noise on your headphones, it mitigates some of the open office shittiness.
Poor taste to use this as a platform for your back to office complaints.
Are you tone deaf? The comment you’re replying to is softly stating that going back into the office is making them feel suicidal.
This is a perfect venue to discuss that…
Due to forced back to office somebody must drop their remote master studies. Somebody will not see pregnant wife whole day. Somebody will not be able to pick/bring kids from/to school. Another one must cancel his weight loss program during lunch break (funny enough, this guy is the most productive and kindest one in the whole floor). It’s rude silent layoff, only management wins reducing headcount with such clever measures.
Please forgive a tangent on this terrible news, but do Google and Waymo share the same office building in NYC?