[monkeyshine]

he thought about funding for a project, his will, and finally, his wife

A man who has his priorities straight ;-)

[Tax-chick]

... we are encouraging everyone to make their health and wellbeing a top priority.

As long as they are always available to take a call or get in another meeting or immediately respond to a message.

[Mariner]

“the latest financial employee to weigh in on the work-till-you-drop culture during a pandemic that’s obliterated the lines between office and home life for droves of workers. “

It has always been thus in tech.

The month before a major datacenter cutover will test anyone’s mettle. Or a major VoIP deployment etc.

Normal humans cannot do it, so they morph into...something else.

[kiryandil]

gas_bag could save this guy's life with tips for working 12 hour days for weeks straight...     

[americas.best.days...]

Pffftt. The horror of a bankers life.

[SamAdams76]

This hits a little close to home as I've been intermittently checking my work email all night and responding to whatever comes in.

Since the so-called pandemic, my work hours have definitely increased as the trade-off for being able to work at home most of the time is to be available most of the time. The hours I used to spend commuting is now spent at work.

I miss those hour drives to and from work listening to Outlaw Country on the Sirius radio!

[montag813]

How do we know he wasn’t beaten to death with a fire extinguisher?

[Deaf Smith]

"And work days can stretch to 12 hours"

That is called a Half Day.

Welcome to service work where 12 hours is the norm.

Or go to the oil fields where the base week is 80 hours before overtime.

[cdcdawg]

“Frostick said he and colleagues spend a disproportionate amount of time on Zoom calls, and work days can stretch to 12 hours. The isolation of remote work also takes a toll, he said.”

Little known facts: if you are are talking past the scheduled end of a Zoom meeting, you are keeping people from doing their jobs, and they would use The Force to choke you over the internet if they could. Isolation isn’t any better in many offices.

Working from home does require that some boundaries be maintained. A start time and end time are good ones. Like borders, they aren’t any good if they aren’t enforced. Understand that people on Pacific or Hawaii time will not understand that anyone else in the world is in a different time zone. Treat them like the special children they are. Take breaks. Leave home for lunch sometimes. Say “no” if their meeting time doesn’t work for you.

I’ve been working from home for years. I love it, except for all the people that kept being here during the lockdowns. That did get annoying.