For those who might ask “What does that even mean?”, this is what I’m reading that triggered the question: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transformative-experience/
Recent can mean the most recent you can remember, even if it was years ago. Interested in what y’all might say.
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Some of my office mates worked from home during COVID and their complaint was that is always felt like they were at work because of it and that separating work life from home life was difficult. Do you find that to be true?
Bahaha working from home, I never feel like I’m at work. It’s the best thing ever. I’m at my comfy place in my PJs surrounded by my cats, partner, and KOTH RANDOMIZER. 10/10 fuck an office
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Hell yeah. I’m every-other-week and that’s kind of torture. Five whole days of WEARING PANTS AND LEAVING THE HOUSE?! Eww. At least I can get some exercise on those days.
Then nine straight days of bliss, KOTH, naps whenever I want, playing games all day, and still somehow wrecking all of my teammates in productivity. And some of them are in office full-time! I have no idea what everyone else does all day.
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Fucking reeeeeeal. I work with one lovely lady, another person like me who never talks and constantly has AirBuds in, and one INCREDIBLY annoying lady. It’s not great.
Otherwise I work at home with a bunch of cats and this person who comes in to kiss me sometimes. And all of my computer games and stuff.
I’m never going back to full time in office.
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Amen. I’d take a solid pay cut to WFH full time!
For many people, it helps to have a “work place” at home. I don’t have any space for an office but I realized we never use the dining room so I set up an office there. Now the Dining room is “work” and i goto a different room when I’m “home”
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That sounds absolutely amazing. I find the office to be overwhelming some days, but I also don’t like isolation. You are my new goal.
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I feel like it’s only beneficial for two kinds of people: those who’re trying to save money or those who’re trying to save their time. If you don’t fall into either of the categories then WFH can make you feel very lonely and isolated specially if you live alone.
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Oh I’m not talking about your job in particular. I was mostly speaking about forced work from home. Hybrid way of working is the best of both worlds (more or less).
Also I meant WFH (not hybrid) is bad for people who want to go out and socialize but can’t. Making it so they take less and less care of themselves. Obviously this isn’t for everyone but a large number of people working from home suffer from this issue.
It is a nice change in a lot of cases - getting that commuting time back can be a game changer, particularly if you have kids.
Do agree with the other person about it being a double-edged sword (I’m definitely in the ‘it’s kind of isolating’ camp) - though at the same time it can serve as a push to creating more connections outside of work.
(Though some of us, myself included, don’t really respond to the push I guess).
Good answer! I’m glad this is working for you!
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Agreed. My own problem is that my role is very disconnected from my local office - so it was isolating even before I was made WFH.
At the same time, though, isolating wearing business casual (I’ve yet to find a business casual get-up I’ve found 100% comfortable), or isolating while getting to work in boxers if I so choose. Hmm. Tough choice :p
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Kinda disingenuous to your employer to spend your billed hours doing chores around the house tbh
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Found the middle-manager