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Laying sideways as I draft copy on my balcony 😎
Feeling alone when you’re surrounded by people is worse than feeling alone when you’re alone.
In office!
Feeling alone in the office
If you’re alone in the office, you are in a shituation.
If you’re alone at home that’s natural. Get a dog or a significant other.
Shituation, that is an A+ term, I love that hahaha!
Hmm interesting question. I feel less alone in the office even though many still don’t know me as a new employee. You legitimately say ‘hi’, or ‘good morning’ and see faces frequently and get acquainted. Simply just through seeing their face several times.
At home the isolation can kick in and you wonder if you’re being excluded or just forgotten about, because you’re not there like others are.
A big reason for why it can feel lonely in the office (something I never previously even considered until after the pandemic) is lack of teamwork. Everyone has their own role, but they go off and work alone in their office/private spaces and there's very little group work done (be it in creative, problem solving, presentations development or even in billing - the list goes on) so it's easy to feel like you're in the office all day but barely interacted with anyone outside of Teams or E-mail.
Can't solve with occasional team perks like bagels or kitchen coffee break, it should be a way to make it more common for people to work as groups in the office and I think that should take a big leap forward in terms of not feeling alone in the office. Managers should step up in recognizing this and finding ways for people to be more proactive in working as groups.
Love this perspective. I, too, have not thought about this until after the pandemic. It has fundamentally shifted the focus from ‘culture’ to ‘get in, get out’. More people honestly seem to prefer this now and are okay with just putting in their 3 obligatory office days with minimal interaction. That, in addition to gen Z now a big part of the workforce, needs to make people like us completely rethink what in office work means to people. Those old perks you mention are superficial.
Curious what other people think!
No one judges you if you softly weep alone at home
Feeling alone in the office is way worse for me personally. I was just recently part of being forced off of the team I was on and the agency I was in over to a new agency. My ECD has said "this changes nothing" and "y'all are still part of the team" but has stopped inviting us to Creative team meetings. I've had an ACD immediately uninvite me from meetings and kick me out of the Teams chats associated with those meetings without so much as a single word to me over it. Often I find myself sitting in a cube and hearing a large group from my old team laughing and chatting in a different area. I know I'm taking it too personally, but also it hurts. Massively. It's resulted in me feeling like I never did fit in there like I thought I did and like I don't matter at all. The two days I get to wfh all day and not bother with an in-office appearance are large boosts to my mental state and how I feel about myself. I know it's not great and I know it's not healthy, but it's where I'm at these days.
Remotely. At least going to the office gets you out there and around other people.
It's cheaper to feel lonely at home.
I take feeling alone at home than the office any day.
Alone in the office!!!
Being alone outside of the work place (remote or in office). That’s what will actually affect you.