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WotD: Camaraderie
Working from home, remote work, or taking workcations has become the new employment style these days.
The trend had been building, but pandemic shutdowns, lockdowns, and runarounds helped increase the acceptance of the new way of working.
While there are many benefits, one of the drawbacks is a loss of feeling of camaraderie.
Camaraderie is the feeling of togetherness, closeness, and friendliness toward coworkers; everyone is in the same situation and has to work together to get out of it.
In Japan, middle-aged men have lamented the loss of camaraderie among their workmates for quite a while now.
Nominacation or drinking after work was ubiquitous for that generation and helped build camaraderie with other workers.
These days, younger hires are not interested in getting drunk on a Wednesday night and showing up for work hungover on Thursday morning.
The older guys call it camaraderie, but the younger ones call it nuts.
The pandemic has done nothing to increase the feelings of camaraderie among employees.
Now, you don’t even have to go into the office.
If the office is in Tokyo, you can be in Chiba, Gunma or heavenly Wakayama.
Sure, Zoom drinking parties were a thing for a while, but that was when everyone was desperate for a little social interaction.
They were a pandemic band-aid solution for those working from home and suffering from cabin fever.
While Zoom parties did create some camaraderie, now they are seen as a bunch of sad and lonely people, drinking alone with other low and lonely people while trying to convince themselves they have a feeling of camaraderie.
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