Working from home altered our brains. We need more office time to fix them. Adding this article today via WSJ ($) in following with numerous similar articles all striking the same chord – workers get back to the office or else – with a yet another twist:

“Some workers have lost the muscle memory in their minds required to get jobs done in an open-office setting and, like flabby biceps, that muscle has to be exercised to strengthen, says S. Thomas Carmichael, professor and chair of the neurology department at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. After years of remote work, our brains’ selective attention skills and ability to block out distractions is weakened, Carmichael says. Those who prefer to work from home might not like one of his remedies: Make yourself work from the office more often…”

• And yet – See also Forbes – We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it’s worse than we thought
• And another from WSJ – ‘How Do I Do That?’ The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work
• See also Simon Walo, “Bullshit” After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless, Work, Employment and Society (First published online July 21, 2023). DOI: 10.1177/09500170231175771