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I agree Dan. We're all very open and mutually supportive at my workplace and two of my colleagues are acknowledging real mental health issues with WFH. Both are, by nature, very gregarious, which I'm sure plays a part in their cases.
Suits me down to the ground, mind - one of my colleagues called me 'the Bear Grylls of isolation' because I'm temperamentally really comfortable with it. Which probably means I'm an antisocial bastard with lots of strategies for wasting time.
Yep, that figures. I'm reasonably happy in my own space but I've been consulting for near enough 10 years now (WTF?) and I've really come to enjoy the face to face side. I'm not particularly extroverted I don't think, but I do genuinely enjoy going places, meeting people, lunches, dinners etc. I find it's great for building relationships but also just good fun.
For me daily video calls with my team are essential. My boss has returned to the office today, but won't be full time. I think he felt like he needed to show his face as a senior manager, rather than actually needing to be on site, possibly a bit of pressure from above.
Similar to what Throb has said, he's a very outgoing and social person and has been struggling with the remote working to some extent.
I think for me now with there being no formal return date it feels never ending to some extent, that I'm probably struggling with a bit. As the days go on I feel like I want to be in the office maybe a couple of days a week.
Also, since I've moved my lockdown location I've only spent one night at home every 2 weeks for the past 2 months. I think that's getting to me a bit.
Yeah, it's all just dragging a LOT now. It certainly doesn't help that a lot of the niceness of WFH isn't here, either. Before lock down my kid had just started school and the wife and I had started doing some nice lunches and stuff which was working for me!
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