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I keep seeing an article getting posted to antiwork, so I thought it's best to debunk this article. The headline of the article is: You need to detach and ‘psychologically recover’ from work, professors say. The solution: commuting https://fortune.com/2023/02/02/remote-work-why-do-i-miss-commuting-psychological-detach-recovery-liminal-space-management-study/ DEBUNK: This title and article are very disingenuous, as the papers which are claiming that the commuting time is psychologically beneficial were written in 2010 and in 2014. These papers do not consider the phycology of the pandemic, or the fact that we shifted to a work from home model. The article knows this and is using the science outside its original context. AKA cherry-picking. Here are the titles, dates, links, and abstract for the psychology papers quoted: 2010 – Happy, healthy, and productive: The role of detachment from work during nonwork time. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/job.1924 Mentally distancing oneself from work during nonwork time can help restore resources lost because of work demands.…

It happened a couple of months ago: I had my yearly performance review at my office job, and my manager point blank asked me: “I don't think you like me?” I fully blanked out at that moment, because what are you supposed to reply to that? What if I had replied “yes indeed I dislike you ;)”? This felt like such a weird thing to ask to your subordinate. Why do you care if I like you or not? As long as we work together well and I get my job done, why do you care? I babbled a reply around the lines of “oh no not at all, I just think it's important to keep some sort of professional distance with my management” because it is true, but he didn't seem convinced. He's now been even more distant at work, and it's harder to work with him. Other people…

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