Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
I&#x27;m in my 20s. I live alone in a city where I don&#x27;t know anyone. Remote work destroyed my mental health.<p>All I wanted was to be able to go into an office and talk to a real life person. I would go weeks at a time not talking to a single person in real life.<p>I don&#x27;t think people understand the plight of the young office worker until they&#x27;ve experienced the torture of solitary confinement. Day in, day out. All alone. I don&#x27;t have a girlfriend, friends, or a life in this city.<p>I tried to join clubs and a maker space, but no time - I was working all day. The maker space closed early. I&#x27;m creative, I like working. I just wanted to go to an office. That&#x27;s all I wanted. I wanted a routine. I wanted to commute and people watch. I wanted to feel like I was living life. But no, I had a remote job.<p>I got a new job that&#x27;s supposed to be 3 days a week in office. Guess what? My team can&#x27;t get enough remote work - they&#x27;re not going to go into the office. And here I am, again, in the torture of solitary confinement.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking about getting a new career, going into the trades. Anything that would allow me to have consistent interaction with other people.<p>I&#x27;ve become anti-technology, anti-society. I&#x27;m an optimistic person, yet I slip into depression because the only thing I want - to be able to go into an office - will not happen for me.