I don't like this trend.

I know a lot of you are going to turn Reply Guy on me, but I don't think it's good for humanity for everyone to work from home. Thread: https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1260249996638613504

When I moved to London, then NYC, I knew almost no-one. I was able to form deep, meaningful friendships largely because I worked in offices with people. I can maintain those pre-existing relationships now, but I think I'd struggle to form similar new ones if we all WFH'd.

I get that not everyone enjoys their coworkers' company. I'm sorry if that applies to you! But I really think a lot of WFH evangelists chronically underestimate the harm to the fabric of society if people were to become even more isolated after Covid than we were before.

People don't like to talk about this because no-one wants to sound like they're incapable of making friends outside work. The reality is I think a lot of millennials *do* predominantly make friends that way, and we're the age group most likely to suffer from serious loneliness.

A society with fewer strong social bonds is a more fragile, more volatile society. And loneliness is widely recognised as a major health crisis. Let's not make it worse! WFH should be an option, not the expectation.