When employees return to the office, they wonder if things could be better at home.
We have lost the ability to block out distractions
While it sounds straightforward, the effectiveness of working from home created unhappiness about their return to the office for many people. ”We must acknowledge that many workers lose their uninterrupted autonomy in social office spaces. We know how it can be – the first hour of our day can easily be spent saying hello to everybody and getting that first cup of coffee.”
Constantly comparing 2023’s office realities with alternative remote-work setups can add to workers’ readjustment difficulties, Laura Giurge, a professor at the London School of Economics, says. “When people start to ponder what life would be like if their circumstances were different, they can rapidly end up drowning in a sea of ‘what ifs’, a psychological concept known as counterfactual thinking.
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