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I'm not sure if I'm just weird, but I've never had any issues switching between work and home. When work is done, I close my work laptop and open my personal la
by duckpuppy 6y ago
I'm not sure if I'm just weird, but I've never had any issues switching between work and home. When work is done, I close my work laptop and open my personal laptop, same desk, and I'm not at work. Or I go upstairs. I just... stop. I wear the same clothes around the house as I do at work mostly (except shorts vs. jeans, I don't like long sleeves or pants). There's so much non-work stuff that I typically have to do after work that work will never enter my mind again for the rest of the day after I stop. I have no problem ignoring Slack notifications until tomorrow... just swipe them away, they'll still be unread when I start in the morning. I don't even have work e-mail on my phone. The only exception to this is when I'm on my on-call rotation.
I suppose that having separate hardware for work helps, but it's on my personal desk and is connected to the second input of my personal monitor, and always has been... it even shares the same mouse and KB I use with my personal laptop. I was WFH most of the week pre-lockdown as it is, so it wasn't a huge change for me.
That said, I will be getting an "office" work space soon with an adjustible sit/stand desk that I will put work-related stuff on (including a new keyboard/mouse/monitor), but it's going to be next to the desk I already have for personal stuff.
The difficulty with a mental split between work and not-work escapes me. Either I need to do work, or I'm done and can stop... and I start and stop typically by the clock. If I work more time one day, I'll reclaim that time on a later day with the full support of my leadership.