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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gen Z is dragging their feet going back to offices they’ve barely known, but (retired) Boomers can’t wait.

[b]Boomers are more productive and economically viable.[/b]

https://fortune.com/2023/09/08/remote-work-return-to-office-gen-z-boomers-retirees-want-jobs/amp/

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Not quite. The Boomers want to go back because they are bored, not because they are ready to get back into the grind of actually producing. They are looking forward to the meetings, water cooler chat, and long lunches where they can dispense their wisdom and perspective, not actually sitting down to grind out work product.

GenX and Millennials - the people who are grinding out the work product - are producing just fine from home and appreciate the extra time WFH gives them to both get their work done and balance their childcare (and frequently, elder care) responsibilities. [/quote]
Gen Xer here.  Like previously posted don’t count us with Millennials.  I do love WFH but if my agency says get back to the office, so be it (personally I doubt it will happen to any significant extent).  Most of us lived under our means because we didn’t buy the hype.  We knew it would soon suck.  Nothing about working with Boomers bothers me.  I don’t let it.  What bothers me are whiners.  The sooner you accept this the happier you’ll be.  [/quote]

Another Gen X here and I’m sorry to say that I agree with this. I WFH a full-time and it’s great. But if I am asked to go back to the office, I will go, and it will be fine. Some aspects of it will be better, some will be worse. But I certainly won’t feel, how do the kids say, [i]personally attacked[/i].

Nice thing about our generation is that we had it proven to us early that no one was particularly interested in our well-being except us, and so we’d best do what we can with what we have. We do and life goes on. [/quote]

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