The part I found most interesting after several years of hearing statements to the contrary: the pandemic lockdowns reduced, significantly, the suicide rate, which shot up again after businesses started demanding RTOs two years into it.
After being told for so long that the lockdowns had caused problems with mental health, it’s interesting to see the exact opposite appears to have happened. COVID, sure, it’s caused problems (which would explain why rates went down then up once COVID had infected people and WFH started to end for so many people) and suggests the WFH-damages-mental health thing might just have been a bad faith meme introduced by our incompetent overlords…
The part I found most interesting after several years of hearing statements to the contrary: the pandemic lockdowns reduced, significantly, the suicide rate, which shot up again after businesses started demanding RTOs two years into it.
Time links to this article which goes into more detail - doesn’t explicitly mention WFH/RTO, but the years line up: https://time.com/6271257/suicide-rates-increased-2021/
After being told for so long that the lockdowns had caused problems with mental health, it’s interesting to see the exact opposite appears to have happened. COVID, sure, it’s caused problems (which would explain why rates went down then up once COVID had infected people and WFH started to end for so many people) and suggests the WFH-damages-mental health thing might just have been a bad faith meme introduced by our incompetent overlords…