Re:Is going to the office a broken way of working?
by mikro2nd on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @07:12AM
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Not sure... It seems likely to me that people who've been forced to work from home during the Covid pandemic tend to have crap office-space because it's only temporary. In contrast, people who have made a conscious decision/choice to work from home (as I've done for over 25 years, now) proceed by setting up a proper work space. (Along with developing good work-hygiene like keeping office hours sharply separate from personal time, keeping work in the office and not letting it spill over into the lounge, kitchen, etc.)
Main point: there's a marked (mental, emotional) difference between "this is a temporary emergency" and "this is the way I work (forever)".
There’s a reason that “stop working at the kitchen counter” is, like, its own cottage industry of online writing. People mostly have really bad wfh setups, even people in tech.