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Comment by brailsafe | Hacker News Reader

It varies, working from home can be a horrible isolating trap and simultaneously much more productive and appealing.

Especially in the winter months, if your work day is now at your home with no intrinsic reason to go anywhere else, you wake up in darkness and first leave the house in darkness, meanwhile the agency you'd otherwise have is impeded by people watching your Slack status wondering where you are, it's not exactly ideal. With no physical difference between work and home, you and up basically always being at home, which can be dreadful at times.

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I’m not sure how leaving home before sunrise then arriving home after sunset, to go spend all your daylight hours in an office, is any better. At least every room in my house has ample natural light…

I think just the smallest interaction with other humans on a day to day basis is pretty important for our happiness, even for introverts.

Hybrid: All the focus of at home work coupled with a few days talking smack around the office cooler . . .

  "The most important finding of the study is that of hybrid work," Jan Kabatek, a researcher at the University of Melbourne and co-author of the study, told the ABC.

  "The biggest gains for women were found for work from home arrangements, which involved the majority of days spent at home, but retaining at least one or two days of work from the office or on-site.

That's not great 100% of the time either, but a mix is what I've found to be a bit better for mental health.

> At least every room in my house has ample natural light…

Must be nice, I live in a basement. A place where every room, presumably more than one of them, has ample natural light, costs a minimum of a million dollars, but I still prefer my city to one who's only value proposition is ample sunlight and cheap houses.

some of us like that.

I get 90% of my social interaction needs from my wife/kids/dogs. The rest I get from going to the gym and lifting.

OTOH: i also live in the woods.

Do they like that?

Either way, that's perfectly fine, it's not for me, but I wasn't arguing against it. I'm quite happy in the city near the mountains, I wouldn't even entertain moving 3 blocks deeper into the suburbs.

The Gym is an underappreciated social space.

Why yes, they do. If they didn't, they would get out and socialize. I'm not controlling them. We're basically all introverts here. Except maybe my youngest, who gets his social needs met at school, and he's free to visit them whenever he wants (within reason).

> by people watching your Slack status wondering where you are

Find a better workplace, Jesus.

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