I get it. Last year I did 11 straight weeks of teleworking. The first couple were great - reminded me of my consultant days working out of a home office. By about week 5 or 6 I realized I was more ready to retire than I would have ever admitted. January 2020, loved my job, you would have had to drag me away from it. By May, if I could have, I’d have turned in papers. We’re back, to a limited extent, but with even more than the usual Mikey Mouse BS. I’m ready to drop 2 weeks notice most days.
I’ve actually enjoyed telework (in a month, I’ll have been doing it for a year.)
I don’t have distractions when I telework, and I get more work out in a more timely way than I ever did before. And I think that over the past year, a lot of institutions and businesses have probably realized the various benefits - economically, environmentally, and in terms of space usage - of allowing many people to telework.
(The one problem I’ve had with it is that,for various reasons, you feel an obligation to be always ‘ON’. I’ve worked more overtime in the past year than ever before - and I don’t get paid for it.)
Same here. It’s like camping out. It’s fun at first, but then it gets old.
I was like that at my job, got lucky and was layed off in July. retired and enjoying it, working from home was nice but the constant video meetings and training was a drain.