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Why are Millennials Rushing Back to Office?
My friend called and said triumphantly that she finally will be able to try her new work outfit. Her office had partially opened.
If it was 2019, I would have zoned out. I never enjoyed conversations that circled around sartorial choices.
But this time, I felt a tinge of envy in my heart. In a fraction of a second, my thoughts jumped from her, in a brand new chick outfit going to the office with a big smile on her face, to me, sitting in a dingy room wearing my old pair of boxers and a tattered shirt, trying to count the hours till the end of the day but never getting them right.
I felt envious and miserable.
I missed going to the office. Just like I missed my home when I used to be in the office.
Was it the intrusion of my personal life in my work life, or the intrusion of my work life in my personal life, I don’t know.
But two years back, I would have never thought that I would miss going back to the office.
Like the wise Red says in The Shawshank Redemption, maybe, I was “Institutionalised.”
And there is a scientific term for getting institutionalized: Enmeshment.
