UNTREATABLE.COM
Condition File

Severe Return-to-Office Grief

UNTREATABLE.COM Institute of Incurable Conditions
SEVERE
Diagnosis
Severe Return-to-Office Grief
Luctus officalis reditus
Clinical description

Patient has been recalled to the office. They have not recovered. The commute, the lighting, the shared mic in the meeting room. Mourning is ongoing.

Prognosis

Permanent. Will eulogize remote work for years.

Recommended treatment

None. Hybrid 'solutions' intensified the grief.

Diagnose me with this
πŸ“ Browse full list

Common symptoms

Patients with Severe Return-to-Office Grief typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Severe Return-to-Office Grief belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.

Under its Latin label Luctus officalis reditus, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.

Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.