AskABoss: 'While the days of being in the office full-time are over, I still think it’s a valuable place for networking, team-building, and maintaining a strong company culture. Do others not feel the same?'
I am a single millennial living in a Manhattan apartment I share with a roommate. I don’t have any children or pets. I work at a midsize company where most of the employees are around my age and the culture resembles a start-up. We are a very social workplace and I truly enjoy my job and my co-workers. I have an active social life outside of work as well, but I definitely get a lot of fulfillment from my career.
While the days of being in the office full-time are over, I still think it’s a valuable place for networking, team-building, and maintaining a strong company culture.
For example, many people with kids still don’t have reliable child-care setups. There’s a shortage of available spots in day care, and people with school-aged children can have their kids sent home to quarantine with no notice whenever they have a potential COVID exposure. Moreover, people with kids who are too young to be vaccinated need to worry about bringing COVID home to their families.
It sounds like you’re assuming everyone should share your risk tolerance, but that’s neither realistic nor fair. You wrote, “I started coming back in well before vaccines were available and it was completely fine” — which says you got lucky, not that it was actually safe or that everyone else should have done the same or that they’re wrong to continue to be cautious now.
But I noticed that you didn’t cite any work-related reasons for your colleagues needing to be on site more often. It sounds like personal preference, and if that’s the case, you’re going to be a lot less frustrated — and a better manager to the people on your team — if you realize that your perspective on this isn’t The One Right Way of Being.
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