Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The 150 Year Rise and Fall of The Office Job" video.

  1. I think the short commute is key. Some physical separation from private life is important especially with pets and little kids who will inevitability screw around with vital work material. It's really those lengthy drives that are often always by yourself, demanding your constant alertness, which you're not specifically compensated for that is truly soul-crushing.
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  2. Depends more on the cubicle wall materials and layout. I've been in some places with cubicles that nearly reach the ceiling to give people "offices", but it feels especially unfriendly there because the small floor space to wall height ratio makes the place look more like a prison.
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  3. Face-time is crucial when you're not simply maintaining your current level of social and professional skills. There's a reason among that the first to drop fully remote arrangements was schools for children.
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  4. You'd need a gym everyone likes going to. The only exercise I personally enjoy enough indoors are rock climbing and martial arts, everything else I have to be under the open sky.
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  5. "Lazy union government workers" protect especially direct access to extremely sensitive data and materials. Entire communities can experience immediate lifelong damage if those processing it were instead compelled through low pay or professional policies to monetize it like in the self-serving private sector.
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  6. It's the dilemma of IT systems administrators who are often targeted for cuts and contracting out because they're visibly seen as "doing nothing". That "nothing" is usually being the help desk during the day (so a lot of waiting), and doing vital maintenance and upgrades during lulls and after-hours (asking for overtime and/or more staffing to stagger the hours). Ironically they're the ones goalkeeping the organization's most critical information, and enabling everyone else to WFH. There's not a lot of remote capability to physically replace a server's busted power supply or storage array drive.
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  7. ​ @Aldroid151 But it salvages your mental health, especially when you're younger and are still developing your personal and professional life. WFH is best when you're no longer trying to move up in responsibilities and opportunities, including the less-awkward random chance of finding people to befriend if not share your life with during detours in your commute.
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  8. "My job involves security"?
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  9. Only for those who saw a need for a room nobody sleeps in and could afford it. Historically people didn't have so many places to hide away from the rest of the household.
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  10. My job: "keep emails flowing" 🧑‍💻 Not a whole lot of WFH capabilities for anyone when a work server's storage drive, power supply, or VPN link randomly goes belly-up.
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  11. "Can" is the key word. I also work in an office, but my job involves making sure everyone else is able to WFH. There's not really any remote capabilities that can resolve a random physical problem like a power supply or server's hard drive gone bad.
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  12. ​ @tomlxyz Also the increased demand for space in homes as people demand extra rooms (ideally with more costly soundproofing) as work studios.
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