I worry that the widespread acceptance of work from home without any other societal changes will increase the level of loneliness. It's a solution that has to come packaged with other quality of life enhancements or social trust is going into an even faster free fall. I wonder what a wfh/social solution would look like.

Edit: I'm not advocating for the office, I just think people like me wouldn't do very well without other changes, and I think there are more people who don't know how to make adult friends than we think. I'm not even an introvert, I just don't go to any place often enough to make friends from it.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fucking go outside and go to social gatherings

[–] Fr0G@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Most of the social gatherings I've been to have been set up with coworkers. Maybe I was conditioned by the American education system but I don't think I've ever made a friend outside of a place that we both were expected to go to consistently. I'm not very familiar with constructs outside of that if I'm honest.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah you've got to be a little outgoing to make friends sometimes. If you're not using up energy to commute it might be easier though. It would be for me

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