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I am an outlier and minority here - WFH should have worked for me, but I realized the lack of control over snacking when at home, and a lack of discipline to ta

I am an outlier and minority here - WFH should have worked for me, but I realized the lack of control over snacking when at home, and a lack of discipline to take breaks between meetings to walk and be active. I gained 20 lbs over two years. When I’m in the office, both these problems don’t exist; in fact 1:1s become ‘walking 1:1s’. I feel more healthier; the commute back allows me to disconnect from work and decline meetings. This is not to say working from the office is better for everyone. I wish I had the discipline to be better at WFH.

DragonStrength 3y ago
That's the opposite of me: I take twice daily walks when working from home because I prioritize living somewhere I like and can walk. Returning to the office means eating worse food for me (eating out) and spending more time in a vehicle versus walking.
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snarf21 3y ago
This is the thing I wish people would admit: it is all a preference. It's fine if some people want to WFH. It should also be fine if some people don't. Let employers fight to get their employees what their employees want or lose them to one that will. I wish I could work locally but it is no longer possible but I see a lot of benefits that you enjoy too. There is no absolute, just a preference for each person's priorities.
Tokkemon 3y ago
Echo this a lot. Combined with a 4-year old at home constantly interrupting your flow, it's a hard time.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago
  If our kid was at home all the time, going to the office would be necessary, but someone has to watch the kid, and having a daycare in the neighborhood makes it better to just send them off there (and convenient to drop/pick them up via WFH).
Karawebnetwork 3y ago
I personally experience the polar opposite. Our office had ice cream fridges, candies, people ordering in daily, etc. I threw away a lot of money and ate a lot of extra calories because acting as a group was strongly encouraged, meaning I would go out with the team every "let's eat out at a fast food place Friday" (if not more often). When I am at home in my controlled space, there are no snacks because I do not buy any. There are no restaurants because I live far from downtown & fast food places by choice. When I have a lot of willpower to do so, I even workout during the day and then take a shower. The best I could do at the office is go for a walk next to a road filled with cars.
johnnyanmac 3y ago
I can relate, WFH for me - As a lone single male, it pretty much meant I NEVER had to leave the house. Maybe once a month for groceries, but with doordash/instacart there were periods where I could spend 4+ months cooped up inside. And as the former implies, I also ate out a lot. costing money and health. think I gaied around 40 lbs from 2020 to now. - Work/life separation breaks down, as I had no friends to console to, no family to worry about, and overall a feeling of nothingness outside of games/movies. Sometimes I'd simply fall asleep in my office at 11PM and wake up at 6AM slumped over. There's nothing/no one else to take my mind off of work - grooming went off the wayside. I wore so little clothes I could spend 4-6 weeks between laundry, felt no need to shower for weeks, and overall lack of will to do anything more than make sure my face isn't a mess. Even then I also just let my hair grow way out. There's no really to care about how I look otherwise. - house goes out of care. There's usually small things I'd do when I get home from work to at least keep the place from going on an episode of Hoarders, but boxes can stack up and dust gathered very easily when all I really did was walk from room to office to room. It felt like being a NEET, but I was still working and not really even enjoying much media (I didn't really watch much anime since the pandemic and I used to be a seasonal watcher). Worst of both worlds? I started this year trying to make myself go out at least once a week, but even pre-pandemic I was feeling this sense of loneliness. Even post pandemic I can feel the effects being worse off compared to 2019.

DragonStrength 3y ago

That's the opposite of me: I take twice daily walks when working from home because I prioritize living somewhere I like and can walk. Returning to the office means eating worse food for me (eating out) and spending more time in a vehicle versus walking.

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snarf21 3y ago

This is the thing I wish people would admit: it is all a preference. It's fine if some people want to WFH. It should also be fine if some people don't. Let employers fight to get their employees what their employees want or lose them to one that will. I wish I could work locally but it is no longer possible but I see a lot of benefits that you enjoy too. There is no absolute, just a preference for each person's priorities.

Tokkemon 3y ago

Echo this a lot. Combined with a 4-year old at home constantly interrupting your flow, it's a hard time.

seanmcdirmid 3y ago
If our kid was at home all the time, going to the office would be necessary, but someone has to watch the kid, and having a daycare in the neighborhood makes it better to just send them off there (and convenient to drop/pick them up via WFH).

Karawebnetwork 3y ago

I personally experience the polar opposite. Our office had ice cream fridges, candies, people ordering in daily, etc. I threw away a lot of money and ate a lot of extra calories because acting as a group was strongly encouraged, meaning I would go out with the team every "let's eat out at a fast food place Friday" (if not more often). When I am at home in my controlled space, there are no snacks because I do not buy any. There are no restaurants because I live far from downtown & fast food places by choice. When I have a lot of willpower to do so, I even workout during the day and then take a shower. The best I could do at the office is go for a walk next to a road filled with cars.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

I can relate, WFH for me - As a lone single male, it pretty much meant I NEVER had to leave the house. Maybe once a month for groceries, but with doordash/instacart there were periods where I could spend 4+ months cooped up inside. And as the former implies, I also ate out a lot. costing money and health. think I gaied around 40 lbs from 2020 to now. - Work/life separation breaks down, as I had no friends to console to, no family to worry about, and overall a feeling of nothingness outside of games/movies. Sometimes I'd simply fall asleep in my office at 11PM and wake up at 6AM slumped over. There's nothing/no one else to take my mind off of work - grooming went off the wayside. I wore so little clothes I could spend 4-6 weeks between laundry, felt no need to shower for weeks, and overall lack of will to do anything more than make sure my face isn't a mess. Even then I also just let my hair grow way out. There's no really to care about how I look otherwise. - house goes out of care. There's usually small things I'd do when I get home from work to at least keep the place from going on an episode of Hoarders, but boxes can stack up and dust gathered very easily when all I really did was walk from room to office to room. It felt like being a NEET, but I was still working and not really even enjoying much media (I didn't really watch much anime since the pandemic and I used to be a seasonal watcher). Worst of both worlds? I started this year trying to make myself go out at least once a week, but even pre-pandemic I was feeling this sense of loneliness. Even post pandemic I can feel the effects being worse off compared to 2019.