I’m here. I think.
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My company introduced 3 days per week in the office next week (from previous 1 day per week). So I’m pretty much going to accept I can’t work there and just be more social and talk a lot. Normally I work in a role where I do cloud architecture and devops, but that requires thinking and focus, and office is the worst place for that. So I guess my company doesn’t want me to work like that anymore. :)
Trying to not feel annoyed by it, and seeing it as more of a chance to work less and do easy tasks. Guess it’s fine. Why should I care if they don’t. :)
I also work in IT and I’ve had decent experiences with wearing noise cancelling headphones. Not only blocks noise but also people are less likely to interrupt you while wearing headphones. I have a whole work playlist of to get me in a focused mood.
I’m quite old so I’ve done that before covid, very much.
I couldn’t focus anyway, always noise and people moving in my eye sight. Besides, it also feels super weird to sit next to people and not talk to them for hours.
So it’s not for me. I rather just not work so much on difficult stuff. Will just do easy stuff and talk to colleagues.