Sir, – What a pleasure it is to grapple with a conviction one holds, but cannot fully express satisfactorily, only to read someone else do so succinctly.
Liam Murphy’s letter (“Camaraderie is a poor reason for a return to the office,” July 24th) so neatly captures my feelings on the issue of “camaraderie” and office work, it needs no further expansion beyond his four short paragraphs.
I would simply add one coda: that cohesion and capacity also suffer when we must brave the early-morning commute to supply “camaraderie”. I can attest that the times in my life when I was least cohesive, capable and was positively antithetical to camaraderie, all coincided with those periods when I was commuting to the office five days a week. – Yours, etc,
NIALL MCGLYNN,
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Harold’s Cross,
Dublin 6.
