I do think the modern workplace isn’t really a good place for this either unfortunately. In my field at least it’s like everybody is a corporate mercenary. They’re going to come in, make no friends, do their jobs and then quietly leave for a higher paying position as soon as they possibly can.
Which is fine, but it’s a pretty poor place to get social nourishment.
Yeah, the normal office is not the place to make friends.
But I guess for a shared workspace for people working remote, it doesn’t really matter what they do or if they change jobs. You can make casual conversation with regulars at the water cooler or coffee bar without the weird forced interactions of working for the same company and “team building”. You’re both in this common space because you want to be there, rather than sitting at home.
Yeah, that’s why I mentioned common space, since those people would want to be there. Being forced to do hybrid ends up being weird since most of those people don’t want to be there and it doesn’t really let you form bonds as much.
Mixing your personal and professional life is a surefire way to be create an abusive and exploitative environment.
The exploitative companies basically want to ‘foster togetherness’ so they can exploit they works via emotional manipulation techniques, and often seek to isolate workers from the outside world or life outside the office.
This is very much based on the industry of course. I’ve formed life long friendships with people from my last job. I just saw one of them I haven’t worked with in 5 years and likewise a few others during halloween. I was in a position to be able to nurture those friendship and workplace dynamics.
I do think the modern workplace isn’t really a good place for this either unfortunately. In my field at least it’s like everybody is a corporate mercenary. They’re going to come in, make no friends, do their jobs and then quietly leave for a higher paying position as soon as they possibly can.
Which is fine, but it’s a pretty poor place to get social nourishment.
I don’t think those kinds of positions would really benefit from being in office given the competitive nature.
Yeah, the normal office is not the place to make friends.
But I guess for a shared workspace for people working remote, it doesn’t really matter what they do or if they change jobs. You can make casual conversation with regulars at the water cooler or coffee bar without the weird forced interactions of working for the same company and “team building”. You’re both in this common space because you want to be there, rather than sitting at home.
Yeah, that’s why I mentioned common space, since those people would want to be there. Being forced to do hybrid ends up being weird since most of those people don’t want to be there and it doesn’t really let you form bonds as much.
Mixing your personal and professional life is a surefire way to be create an abusive and exploitative environment.
The exploitative companies basically want to ‘foster togetherness’ so they can exploit they works via emotional manipulation techniques, and often seek to isolate workers from the outside world or life outside the office.
This is very much based on the industry of course. I’ve formed life long friendships with people from my last job. I just saw one of them I haven’t worked with in 5 years and likewise a few others during halloween. I was in a position to be able to nurture those friendship and workplace dynamics.