A short YouTube monologue by Anthony Astbury reflecting on social trade-offs of working from home versus working in the city. He notes that while working from home can boost productivity, it can reduce incidental social contact (commuting conversations, workplace friendships) and opportunities to meet partners — citing meeting "Emma" and others at work as examples.
And of course some people listening to this, like when I worked in the city, you could not work from home. We had, you know, we were brokers you needed to be around. But one thing I found also, and I wrote about this on LinkedIn was just like you said, you missed the social aspect of it also the commuting in I used to stand talking to friends on the train and what have you also about dating because I know so many people that met their partners and I met Emma at work and I met other partners at work and I had lots of friends in the city that were with boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives or maybe other people's husbands and wives. But that's neither here nor there. And you're right, it's that kind of thing. If you're just stuck at home on your own, yes, you can be productive but do you miss out on other parts of life? Yeah.
