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It's the separation of church and state, right? Obviously annecdata, but a pretty decent amount of people I know struggle with the blurry lines that working fro
by iamben 6y ago
It's the separation of church and state, right? Obviously annecdata, but a pretty decent amount of people I know struggle with the blurry lines that working from home brings.
Like, it's easy to say "when I put on work clothes [whatever they may be] and leave the house to go to the office I'm 'working'." You're paid to go to a place and sit there for 7 hours. Everything that happens in that time is easy to mentally stick in the "they're paying me for this" box.
If you're working from home and sat on the sofa wearing your PJs from the night before until midday the separation is much harder. Does the working day start when you read that first email on your phone at 7.15am (that normally you don't worry about until you're on the train)? When does it end? What if someone emails when you're making your dinner? Does it feel like replying to a work email at home, or an extension of your working day?
This all seems to be amplified greatly if you're not particularly fussed about your job. FWIW and in my experience - the people who do the best working from home get at least some kind of work satisfaction, and are also best at properly defining their working day and getting in to it as if they were actually leaving the house.
- distances 6y agoRings true to me. I'm pretty happy working from home. I try to imitate a well-defined work day: I change to work clothes in the morning and to home clothes after being done. I have a separate laptop for work and work only, not even private emails on that device. In the same vein no work chat or email on my phone, once that laptop closes I'm reachable again next morning.
- mFixman 6y agoThe trick from working from home is finding that separation between home and work. In particular, you want to make sure you _don't_ work in the sofa wearing your PJs. I do a fake bike commute before and after work and it's done wonders for my happiness and work-life balance.
- Symbiote 6y ago> It's the separation of church and state, right? Obviously annecdata, but a pretty decent amount of people I know struggle with the blurry lines that working from home brings. They should join the antidisestablishmentarialist cause! Mostly because I've never had the opportunity to use that word before. I moved my desk to a different room, and the first 6-9 months of working from home were OK. Once winter came, the darkness at 17.00 (or sooner) plus the strongest level of lockdown we've had in Denmark[1] was pretty miserable. [1] Non-essential shops, all restaurants etc closed, though no restrictions on private gatherings, going outside etc. (I realize most of the rest of Europe had stricter restrictions.)