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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone 40+ just has a hard time accepting that they way they have always done things and how they learned to work would have to change with remote work. It’s so so hard for older people to change and learn new things at work. They build up to a point where they fear doing anything new where they might possible not been seen as an expert or make a mistake. And I say this as someone over 50 so I am talking about my own peers. [/quote]

[b]Way to generalize.[/b] I’m in my late 40s and always worked 5 days a week in the office until the pandemic. Now I work in the office 2-3 days and I appreciate the flexibility. I worry that my colleagues who refuse to return more than 1 day a week are threatening my new flexibility when Congress or others threaten to bring us all back 5 days because we’re in so little now.[/quote]

+1.  It is my pet peeve when people generalize about an entire generation, or about what workplaces are like in general.  Like you, I am also over 50, and I find that I have adapted to the new normal at work.  I really like having a hybrid schedule of working in the office 3x per week, and working at home 2x per week. It's been a really great development to have that option to WFH for 2x per week.  But at least in my field (in-house legal counsel) at at my corporation (large Fortune 100 company), it genuinely is valuable to have people working together in the office.[/quote]

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