Some workers still prefer to commute to the office in San Francisco, even if they aren’t required to show up regularly.

As many Bay Area residents head for the Sacramento region in search of more plentiful and affordable housing and to take advantage of remote-work policies, I’m going in the opposite direction: Next month, I’ll be moving from Sacramento to San Francisco — primarily to be closer to my job.

In some ways, this decision feels almost quaint. More than one-fifth of Californians continue to work from home at least part of the week, and nationally, many workers prioritize flexibility and the ability to work remotely when evaluating employment options.

Yet I actually crave less flexibility — enough to literally pay for it by moving to a smaller apartment in a more expensive region.

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This may sound masochistic, but what I’m actually after is something warm and fuzzy: human connection.

Put another way: After more than four years of working from home, I’ve had enough.

Perhaps the acuity of my longing for working with other people — a feeling particularly pronounced among millennial and Gen Z workers, according to a recent international survey — can be explained by the fact that I haven’t done much of it.

When I moved to Sacramento in March 2020 for my first full-time........

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