I think any company that isn’t flexible and forcing 5 days in office (for those who work on computers) is on borrowed time.

I don’t think those kinds of positions would really benefit from being in office given the competitive nature.

We switched to hybrid once covid died down, but the genie was out of the bottle. Most people didn’t want to come back. Since they also implemented a system where people chose what days they were in, it was hard to get proper overlaps. That company is now fully remote and have leased out their offices. As long as the hybrid is thought out, I do think it can work.

Yeah, that’s why I mentioned common space, since those people would want to be there. Being forced to do hybrid ends up being weird since most of those people don’t want to be there and it doesn’t really let you form bonds as much.

This is very much based on the industry of course. I’ve formed life long friendships with people from my last job. I just saw one of them I haven’t worked with in 5 years and likewise a few others during halloween. I was in a position to be able to nurture those friendship and workplace dynamics.

From a societal perspective I think we should be working in common spaces so we can be near people and learn to socialize. We’re losing second and third spaces. Fewer people having children also means less forced interaction and I fear we are heading towards a more isolated society.

Unfortunately, not everyone would lives close enough to comfortably go into an office, which leaves people burning 2-3hrs of their day just doing that. And all the commuting also impacts the Earth.

Edit: Adding that I mentioned “common spaces” and I did not mean situations where people are forced to work in toxic environments. I have been lucky to develop many friendships and also help support many relationships that have formed in the past place I worked at. The majority of the people around me were introverts, working around like minded people helped all of us.

Have you already tried men’s leggings? It’s becoming more popular, at least from a fitness standpoint. Usually they are wearing shorts on top. I’d assume they are more designed to handle men’s “packages”.

Correct. I’m sort of active on it, but I believe they are sun setting it since it won’t be worked on anymore. It may not be that useful to join ar this point. The activity has died down. It’s a lot of “What are you xing this week” threads now.

but if the point of Lemmy is to build a web of community-driven sites which will pull people away from the corporatocratic current iteration, we can’t do that if we’re making people feel unwelcome if they don’t conform to our own little narrow wedge of view

It does sound counter intuitive. I think people on lemmy want those websites to die, but without the traffic coming here.

I think as long as nintendo has a strong stance against piracy, they can cure cancer and lemmy would still be against them.

I also have not found it.

I am skipping meals, and a lot of my clients’ budgets have gone down the drain.

What exactly are your concerns?

“Why aren’t people outraged about…” They are, is always the answer when this question is posed here.

I think most of us transplants here took the less content on Lemmy as a sign to reduce how much scrolling we do, because of reddit.