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"Stay-at-home workers also said getting dressed for the day was far too strenuous" As someone who has spent a few years working from home (but doesn't now), th
by corin_ 15y ago
"Stay-at-home workers also said getting dressed for the day was far too strenuous"
As someone who has spent a few years working from home (but doesn't now), that's a horrible assumption.
Sure, there were days when I'd be working in my boxers, but there were also days when I would be wearing trousers and a shirt ready to go out for a meeting. And when I wasn't properly dressed, it wasn't that it was "strenuous", or even that I was lazy, it was a case of not needing to.
If I wasn't going to see anyone for a few hours after waking up, and I didn't happen to feel like wearing much, why would I bother? Other times I did feel like it and I was fully dressed even if I wasn't going to see anyone. That has no relation to what work I did.
- m0nastic 15y agoI definitely think it's a matter of someone's personal ritual. I've been working from home for the past four years, and I have definitely slipped into a habit of being lazy with my clothes/appearance. I sit around the apartment in a pair of track pants 90% of the time (which makes me look like either a washed-up, out of shape footballer, or possibly a mobster), only putting on real clothes if I have to do something later that night (and even then I don't get dressed like a real grownup until just before I have to leave). I also haven't gotten a haircut in about 8 months. I don't particularly like long hair, I just haven't gotten around to it (in spite of the fact that the ridiculous mane I have grown makes me look like one of the Thundercats). In fact an observer might look as the way I live and conclude that I've been in a horrible bout of depression for the past four years (doesn't put on clothes, doesn't shave or deal with their hair, is a shut-in), but I can attest that I'm quite pleased by this situation.