The problem I’m seeing is the people who see work as:
* completing tasks
vs
* who see work as a piece of their life
People _need_ social interaction (this is an indisputable fact of being human) and remote work divorces the social from the productive for the first time in history (there are jobs where you are isolated for periods like oil rig workers, but this is on a completely new scale).
There aren’t any proven methods to manage this, so your experience is largely dictated by your social reserves and social skills/circle (outside of work).
People can be satisfied working remotely without having social reserves and social skills/circle.
I definitely consider myself closer to someone who sees work as a piece of their life than someone who completes tasks for money. I love working remotely.
Nothing is built into the structure. I think folks are taking this for granted. You have to consciously create such structure regardless of the conditions. It's possible to have anti-social office environments too.
In person it is built-in implicitly, people will be social naturally by proximity alone. Anti-social in person environments are de facto considered problematic.
It’s not, but many people feel like it is. In order to uphold this via remote you have to make a concerted effort, which to people, makes it different.
I’m not arguing against work being only a part of life, but that most remote jobs cannot be broken down into pieces like an assembly line where socializing is unnecessary. Jobs cannot be completely compartmentalized.
* completing tasks
vs
* who see work as a piece of their life
People _need_ social interaction (this is an indisputable fact of being human) and remote work divorces the social from the productive for the first time in history (there are jobs where you are isolated for periods like oil rig workers, but this is on a completely new scale).
There aren’t any proven methods to manage this, so your experience is largely dictated by your social reserves and social skills/circle (outside of work).