Posted on 07/02/2023 5:04:26 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The explosion of remote work in recent years may come with a physical toll.
Three years after the arrival of COVID-19 triggered a mass exodus from offices, about 22 million Americans were still working fully remotely as of March 2023, according to Pew Research Center data.
The shift to remote work has been life-changing for many working adults, like those who have disabilities or are caregivers to family members, and surveys show Americans as a whole love working from home.
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Improvise, adapt, and overcome.
“One guy that comes into the office twice a week where I work says he rolls out of bed in his underwear and sits down and works. Sounds lazy to me.”
Sounds like an industrious worker to me.
I will not work in an office again. It is a waste of 2 hours a day commuting just to sit in an office and make calls to people not in that office.
“One guy that comes into the office twice a week where I work says he rolls out of bed in his underwear and sits down and works. Sounds lazy to me.”
When I had my own company and was working from home I would dress in slacks, a long sleeve shirt and often, a tie. This was to get into the mood that I was a professional and I had a job to do. It helped a lot. I found it much easier to apply myself to work and nothing but work.
You would be surprised at the number of software systems you use or that affect your life that were written by someone in their skivvies.
1. Have a good, dedicated workspace in your home. Working at the kitchen table is a non-starter.
2. My home office is in a walk-out basement. In addition to getting dressed appropriately for work, I have found that walking out the front door and going around to the back of the house and entering the office from the outside makes a difference in getting in the right mindset for work.
3. Plan your day in advance, and always take time away from your desk -- preferable the same time every day.
4. Don't use your personal phone for your work. Have a dedicated phone with a separate number.
5. Stop working at least two hours before you go to bed.
6. Get plenty of exercise. Early morning works best for me.
Excellent advice.
Right there with you. Hope to never set foot in an office again.
If people really believed that automobiles are destroying the planet, they should be four-square behind work from home. Moving from the house to the car, from the car to the cubicle, is hardly a workout, but it needlessly expends a lot of energy.
Let people decide for themselves how they want to move about. Saving and hour or more of commute time every day opens up all sorts of opportunities.
Sitting around on your ass on the sofa playing with the remote will kill you.
You’d figure companies embracing DIE, ESG nonsense would be all behind this to “save the planet.”
Yeah he should at least change into his work underwear!
And his code touched my keyboard.
Ewwww. *Shudder.
Commuting to downtown Dallas from the suburbs was a complete Lord of the flies episode every day. It wasn’t a question of if I was going to be involved in a major traffic accident, but when. Thank God I don’t have to do that anymore.
Working from a bar kills two birds with one stone.
company I work at has a DEI panel now
I’ve not noticed our utility line crews working in their underwear. I’ll keep a close eye for that.
Is there ANYTHING these people won’t bitch about? I’m sure they were bitching about people having to make long commutes to the office and how stressful traffic was and people weren’t getting enough exercise sitting on their butts in their cars and having to deal with the BO of the guy in the next cube and the lousy cafeteria food.
This subject comes up sometimes, and a number of Freepers have said they refuse to work in an office again. Apparently such Freepers have jobs which are structured so they don’t have to physically interact with anyone, and, they have job skills in such demand, that they can dictate such terms of employment to a potential employer.
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