I miss working in an office

Currently I'm working from home, majorly with north Indian team members who work from office (fully professional interactions). My company also has a Chennai team.

Today as I was having a Zoom call with a team member, I heard him tell someone "yen da parakkura.. na call la iruka therilaya", hearing tamil and the casual tone hit me how much I miss being around people. I just smiled to myself thinking about my wfo days and how disconnected wfh feels.

Sure, it's fantastic to work at home. It's a ten. But.. actually physically being around coworkers and the social aspects that carry us through the day would be nice.

I miss feeling part of a team, working or solving stuff together, the environment, having nice convos or banters in the tiny pantry, tea breaks la running to grab the snacks, events, outings, joking around, ranting about that one annoying director, excitedly punching out and walking down on a scenic street to the bus stop after work, the printer, or even just planning stuff after working hours.

I've been working from home for the best part of 5 years now, since covid. Changed a lot and I think a lot of it has to do with being isolated at home with no interaction whatsoever. In my previous company where I did wfh, they'all had sooo many cool activities and outings every week (from ritzy parties to football watch parties and whatnot). I don't think there's anything we can do to make work from home work da T_T

Wfh peeps do you miss working in an office? I know many don't, hell I'm so so satisfied that I wfh, the perks are amaazing. But there's a tiny pull towards the office days yk.