Kinda-sorta. My company has quite liberal sort of values and so do I, so I don't really feel like I have to hold my tongue in that respect. Although any of that

Kinda-sorta. My company has quite liberal sort of values and so do I, so I don't really feel like I have to hold my tongue in that respect. Although any of that kind of talk was usually reserved for socials/drinks/etc anyway. But you know, work is work, what I do is intrinsically shaped by what my employer wants me to do and their goals so it's hard to say I'm spending that time "being myself" when the truth is I'm "being the company". I'm expected to be interested and engaged even when I'd much rather crawl back into bed. Even from a technical point of view I'd much rather be putting together prototypes using some language I'm barely familiar with than maintaining working codebases because that's more fun, but is obviously not that commercially useful. At least with WFH I don't have to act some way I'm not feeling for 8 hours straight every working day, there are usually breaks in-between calls and I can code with a scowl, so that helps with the sense that I have ownership over myself during work hours.