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There are no firm answers. Consider health effects. Some of my colleagues struggled to maintain their health without their daily walks to the train, or just ov
by erosenbe0 5y ago
There are no firm answers. Consider health effects.
Some of my colleagues struggled to maintain their health without their daily walks to the train, or just overworked themselves adapting to remote meetings and tools. Others are physically and mentally much healthier after substituting extra sleep, exercise, or preparation of healthy meals for the commute time.
- heavyset_go 5y agoThere's absolutely nothing stopping those people from choosing to go on daily walks.
- ceras 5y agoSomething is stopping them, otherwise they'd do it. Even if that's purely psychological, that's no less real to them, and the outcomes are clear. A close analogy might be weight loss: "nothing" is stopping anyone from eating less, yet most Americans eat more than they should.
- andrewingram 5y agoRight. Going to the office meant a baseline of 7,000 steps a day, plus quite a few flights of stairs. Plus it was easy to go to salsa and gym after work (because I was already out of the house, so it was easier to to talk myself into going). I struggle to do any of those things when i'm remote. I know perfectly well that I physically can, but that psychological inertia is extremely powerful.
- oblio 5y agoPersonal discipline, or the lack of, is a thing. Plenty of people benefit from imposed structure in their lives. Yes, it's bad, yes, it's sad, but that's life. It's not all idealism and dreams.