Working from home, what’s the worst part of it ?

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1. Depends on your attitude and what type of person you are.

   If you get energised by talking to others, you might struggle. If you like your space and hate interruptions, then it is a godsend.

2. Hello Amy, I only worked at home for a few months and what really got me down was I felt like I was kinda always at work.

3. Depends on your set-up and what you are doing.

   I am 100% remote but have a proper home office so can shut the door at 4pm when I finish. It’s also is a decent workspace with desktop, office chair etc.

   For me it’s important to have a routine so I am at my desk at 9am after a walk and always take a break at lunch.

   I am also am an established professional with a social life so missing office life doesn’t bother me.

   Doing it off a kitchen table in a shared house while living in a strange city where you don’t know anyone is completely different I would think.

4. Worst part is you spend more on gas/electric, specially during colder months.

   Best part is everything else.

   – Not having to waste time commuting and being able to sleep in a bit longer. You’re “home” in 1 second after logging out.

   – Being able to do certain chores in the background whilst you work and during your break (cooking certain things, laundry, etc.) This gives you more time for just relaxing in the evenings as soon as you clock out.

   – If you have family/kids/pets its just nice seeing their faces around for more hours of the day instead of just dinner and bedtime.

5. Simply put – the masturbation.

   Its fine if you’re busy but if it’s quiet it’s a struggle to fill your time without masturbating like a monkey on a fag break.

6. According to some here, the fear that their company is going to make them go into the office.

7. I’ve worked from home since March 2020 (we never went back – 1 morning a week is it).

   The freedom to not feel like I have to be at my desk is nice – I can do a few chores (although Teams does show “away” and it is noticed if its often so I can’t be absent for too long.

   I don’t have to get dressed, can sit on the sofa, can cuddle the animals.

   No commute – I start at 9, I finish at 5 – and I’m done. No traffic, no defrosting the car etc

   But I find it lonely. I don’t talk to another human all day (I don’t count video/phone calls as real interactions).

   Work is slow and I find myself doing less and less each day because I can just piss around on my own laptop, watch TV etc.

   I don’t have an office set up – I work off the dining table so it’s not hugely comfortable and I have to pack away fully at the end of the day otherwise I feel I have no seperation from work.

   I’m lazy so it doesn’t bother me, but I know my colleagues have struggled with having their work at home and just “checking a few emails” over the weekend or “just staying late to get ahead for tomorrow” – things they’d never have done in the office.

   Everyone’s different but I suggest finding a way to have a home set up that is seperate from your usual living areas (a spare room for example) and having a strict work routine as if you were at work. Taking your proper breaks away from your desk, not logging on early/leaving late

8. I’ve worked from home since the first lockdown. I’ll echo other advice here; don’t get complicit.

   Separate your home and your work.
   Seperate room for your computer to your usual living space helps, if you can.

   Get dressed in the morning – I made the mistake of sitting at my desk in my jammies for a while, realised it was making me feel sluggish.

   Take your breaks, away from your computer. It was easy for me to just stay sat at my desk, browsing YouTube etc. During lunch, but I ended up feeling like I just wasn’t taking a break. Get up, stretch your legs, go for a walk outside

9. You have to hoover your own office and use your own electricity. Ha

   I was doing it before it was even a thing and I can’t think of anything worse than going back to an office.

10. I have worked from home for years and found one trick is to get up take a shower and get dressed like you normally would. It really helps. Also if you can run a mundane errand nearby every few days, it gives you the chance to interact with other humans

11. I’ve worked from home for 8 years. Before Covid it was a mix of WFH and bobbing around the country for meetings. So probably on a given week 50/50 home and not at home.

    Since Covid. It’s probably 90/10 at home. I still prefer it to being in an office all day but man it can be very isolating

12. I am fine with it, I can separate home and work and just switch off come 5pm. Worst part I find at the moment is motivation. I used to cycle across town to get to work, I could pop to shops, visit things, people, get exercise and fresh air. Now it really is just sitting all day and I have to push myself to get out at lunchtime which can only be local. After work I can’t really be arsed to do anything but just sit on the sofa, despite being sat all day.

    I had visions when we started in Covid times of getting up as I used to, having a cycle or walk first thing, then logging on. Also of keeping up with all household chores but that has slacked off too. So many more positives though and I can fix the above, it was better when the weather was good.