Employee Doesn’t Know How To Respond to an Overly Excited Email Announcing RTO: ‘I have a whole system at home: two monitors, good headphones, my coffee setup, my dog asleep under my desk. None of that is coming with me’ – FAIL Blog

Are we really that excited to return to the office?

Every week, a new scary RTO Reddit story emerges from the internet’s trenches. We’ve finally gotten used to our work-from-home routines, only for them to come and take them away from us.

Now, all of a sudden, we have to think about traffic, vehicles, public transportation, fees, getting dressed elegantly, sharing with other people, preparing your food the day before and putting it in a lunchbox, and a long list of unwanted etcéteras.

I really don’t understand why this is such a common tendency when everybody is having such a good time at home. Maybe they could offer the possibility for those who would rather go to an office (yes, they exist, and sometimes, I’m one of them) because it helps with time management, getting out of your house more often, and interacting with other people, basically.

At least for this employee, it will only be three days at the office. When all of the working-from-home thing started, I thought it was going to change the world so fundamentally that a lot of people would move out of big cities and the world would reorganize itself, and in some way it did, but right now there is definitely something pulling us back to old habits. Should we conform? And also, am I the only one who doesn’t want to return to the office at all?

At least for me, going to the office should be reserved for days when you need to get out of the house a little and interact, something like that, at your own pace, but well, we’d have to restructure the entire economy of the world to do that, wouldn’t we?