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> Are you single/married/married with kids I think I'd have already gone completely insane if I were still a bachelor when this pandemic WFH experiment has bee

> Are you single/married/married with kids I think I'd have already gone completely insane if I were still a bachelor when this pandemic WFH experiment has been thrust upon me. I go stir crazy when I'm home alone, but I'm not really a social butterfly either. Work was a good compromise.

Hamuko 5y ago
I'm single and I'm pretty pleased with with WFH. I've noticed that I do my best work when I'm listening to music anyways, so I'm still basically sitting in front of a computer with headphones on - except this time they're not noise-cancelling.
Qub3d 5y ago
Mid-twenties bachelor here, your suspicions are 100% correct. I don't mind WFH too much, especially now that I have a companion pet, but I definitely feel like I can dig into work with more focus and vigor in the office. It also took a lot of conscious effort on my part to build a healthy hybrid work lifestyle. For one thing, I don't have the luxury of an entirely separate space to dedicate just to work -- my home office is also my bedroom and personal computer/gaming space. And as others have noted, its just... way too easy to fall into a pattern where you literally turn into a technological anchorite. I have refused to let myself use food or grocery delivery primarily because I realized there was a point in the depths of 2020 when I hadn't left my apartment in almost two weeks, and it really frightened me how easily the time passed, in a beige blur of life.
Mayzie 5y ago
> I think I'd have already gone completely insane if I were still a bachelor when this pandemic WFH experiment has been thrust upon me. I go stir crazy when I'm home alone, but I'm not really a social butterfly either. Work was a good compromise. This is the issue with all of these anti-WFH posts and threads. It was in the midst of the pandemic, where you were not strongly discouraged from leaving your home and socialising. I imagine if there was no lockdown yet everybody similarly worked-from-home, the answers would be markedly different.

Hamuko 5y ago

I'm single and I'm pretty pleased with with WFH. I've noticed that I do my best work when I'm listening to music anyways, so I'm still basically sitting in front of a computer with headphones on - except this time they're not noise-cancelling.

Qub3d 5y ago

Mid-twenties bachelor here, your suspicions are 100% correct. I don't mind WFH too much, especially now that I have a companion pet, but I definitely feel like I can dig into work with more focus and vigor in the office. It also took a lot of conscious effort on my part to build a healthy hybrid work lifestyle. For one thing, I don't have the luxury of an entirely separate space to dedicate just to work -- my home office is also my bedroom and personal computer/gaming space. And as others have noted, its just... way too easy to fall into a pattern where you literally turn into a technological anchorite. I have refused to let myself use food or grocery delivery primarily because I realized there was a point in the depths of 2020 when I hadn't left my apartment in almost two weeks, and it really frightened me how easily the time passed, in a beige blur of life.

Mayzie 5y ago

> I think I'd have already gone completely insane if I were still a bachelor when this pandemic WFH experiment has been thrust upon me. I go stir crazy when I'm home alone, but I'm not really a social butterfly either. Work was a good compromise. This is the issue with all of these anti-WFH posts and threads. It was in the midst of the pandemic, where you were not strongly discouraged from leaving your home and socialising. I imagine if there was no lockdown yet everybody similarly worked-from-home, the answers would be markedly different.