Putting it together over the decades there are the jokers, the heroes, the deadly serious, the funny, the angry, the kind, the addicted, the principled, the rogues, the competent performers and the pure chancers, those who deluded others and those who deluded themselves. Don’t ask me how many of the boxes above I tick.
This isn’t what one’s employers want to hear. Nobody ever says in a job interview when asked why they want the job, ‘I hear this is a great place for the craic.’ It isn’t a bed of roses. Some people work longer hours remotely than on-site; some feel disconnected and some feel conflict between the demands of work and home.
For most people I expect the solution lies in a balance between remote and in-office working; not all one and not all the other. For others, depending on the kind of work they do, maybe it’s in the four day week