You end up not ‘working from home’ but ‘living in the office’.

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This happens in our house. I don't work. So, I hang out , water my plants, smoke weed. Maybe do a jigsaw puzzle. It's usually a pretty laid back day. My husband, on the other hand, works very hard upstairs in his office. I can hear him on calls where he's getting all fired up and then he gets off the call, comes out of his office and tells me the same stuff I just heard, just with more f-bombs. I am still thankful for everything!!

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Lol! NGL, I work part time and this describes my life plus a lot of cat cuddling time. I figure listening to my husband b***h and moan is just part of the deal.

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For me, it’s the fact that nobody seems to understand or respect the fact that I don’t like working from home. Everybody treats it like it’s the future of work and companies are terrible if they don’t embrace full WFH policies. Since our company switched to a hybrid schedule (you can take a few wfh days a week), my coworkers think I’m nuts for being in office most days.

We all work differently and need different environments to be productive. If you find wfh to be best, that’s great - I just wish there was a little more acceptance that some of us (from my experience, a small minority lol) prefer to be in the office.

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Hybrid is my ideal. :)

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Having stress from work now be inside your home. I hate that my bedroom (where my desk resides) is now a trigger for work anxiety. Once my boss called me to yell at me about something and it all happened in my own home. I liked leaving the stress of work behind at the office at the end of day...now it's always with me.

Also, work-life balance has been demolished. My company was eventually like "Well, you work from home, why aren't you working earlier and later? Why aren't you logging in on weekends? Let's schedule meetings from 11am-3pm, eff your lunch."

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Yup. Stress, or even just one bad day, invades home life and becomes inescapable. Shift it all out of a room that’s meant to be a relaxing space. Bedroom is the worst place to be set up.

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The heating/cooling bills. It'll be on all day because the house is always occupied.

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Offset by reduced driving fuel bills. Also check for car and home insurance discount

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As it turned out, many people don't really like their kids.

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That's not a WFH problem, that's a person not wanting to be a parent problem.

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I’ve been WFH in solitary confinement for 2 years. Just laid off. Now I have to go from indoor cat that hides under the bed to outdoor feral, dodging cars and finding my own mice.

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My cats have been WFH since early 2014. They reliably show up for work every day. Their work, since I became WFH, consist mainly of making me listen to them snore, engendering envy in my soul.

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Lack of hygiene routine. Bad posture. Working harder to prove to your bosses rhst you don't want to go back to the office

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When I'm done work I often just wait for an appropriate time to go to bed.

I have more time than when I commuted. Yet I do nothing. How.

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Lack of motivation. Why get up earlier than needed? Why get dressed in the morning if no one's going to see me? Why brush my teeth? Why do anything?

Lack of boundaries. Nothing is stopping me from doing my laundry while I'm supposed to be working. But nothing's stopping my boss from asking me to grab him some files while I'm supposed to be off.

Lack of interaction. It's lonely and does a number on my social skills.

The confinement. My supervisors are pretty laid back so I had a LOT of freedom in the office. A lot of my tasks were also away from the computer and I basically had to stop doing those entirely when I was working from home. Aside from illicit laundry breaks, I had no "legitimate" reason to get up and do things. Not to mention giving up my roomy workspace at the office in favor of a small, cluttered desk. WFH became more of an insult as stuff was opening back up, too, since I could finally get away from my house but was required to stay in for 40 hours of my waking time.

Also? I personally enjoy my commute. It's 10 minutes through a nice area of town. Traffic is never bad unless I leave late. It feels like the beginning of an adventure, even if it's not.

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I can totally relate.

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No boundary between home and office, your time and work time.

You don't need to get dressed. You don't get the commute to get mentally ready for day at work and to decompress after said day.

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Those problems are easily solved. e.g. Do 30 mins of yoga before and after work. Or read BP for 30 mins after work to decompress.

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I thought I hated my job because I was forced to commute 40 minutes each way and forced to be physically present in the office even when my work was already finished. After I started working from home I realized it was the job itself I hated, not the commute or any other part of it.

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I've been working remotely for the better part of 5 years and love it.

If I had to say anything negative , I would say internet connectivity is more vital , but even that isn't even much of a unfortunately reality because I live in NYC and there's Strong connectivity nearly everywhere I've been.

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Its depressing as hell.

Been WFH 100% of the time for the entire pandemic. Same with my wife. We see each other all day every day which isn't great for our relationship, and since we had a baby during the pandemic, we don't really have the ability to get out much outside of work hours which makes the issue worse. Every day begins to feel the same, like groundhogs day. My hygiene has gotten kind of bad because showering isn't as necessary when you don't leave the house. I used to shower every day, now its maybe 2-3 times a week. Some days I barely move. I basically only go from the bedroom to the office, to the kitchen to eat, and then it's back to sitting down. Thankfully, I haven't really gained weight, but I feel weak as hell. It doesn't help its the heart of January so its 10 degrees outside, as I used to take walks during the day.

What was once my man cave and my place of rest is now my office so I have lost the feeling of peace from being in this room. I used to play a lot of PC games, but I rarely spend any time in my office outside of working because it feels like my work place and I can't relax there anymore. I have reverted back into a console player so I can play games on my TV in the living room, although I only beat one video game in 2021 compared to about 20 in 2020, mostly due to being a new father.

We moved away from the city to get a bigger place and pay less for rent, but I would absolutely kill to go back to 2019 when I used to walk a mile to the train station only to cram myself into a train with 100 other people. I miss going out to lunch with people at work, being taken to dinner by my vendors, or even just having a reason to go somewhere. I miss having a relationship with anyone other than my wife, and looking at anything other than a handful of screens all day.

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To be fair this sounds like a lot more going on than just not liking WFH

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As a recent grad, it’s so much harder to learn job responsibilities. Can’t walk over to a desk to ask and I’m not the best learner on zoom. Also I feel like I barely know my coworkers

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If I was a smart man, I'd invest heavily in companies that make sweat pants and comfy socks.

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Depends what kind of meetings. 99.9% of mine are jeans and t-shirt, even with clients.

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I have to think and plan what I want to eat for lunch everyday.

When I go to the office I usually go to the work canteen or a nearby restaurant for lunch, now that I still mostly work from home I rarely go to restaurants for lunch and cook myself. On the positive side I learned some new recipes.

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Good! You will save a lot of money

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If I use annual leave I just come back to all the work the day after.

I work in a large college and honestly I haven't got the slightest idea how the other departments are doing, I seem to be completely left out of any discussions regarding my role and just get emails telling me the extra tasks that now magically been assigned to me.

I now go into the office twice a week which is perfect for me.

Thankfully I have permission to do my work on my home computer but I feel sorry for my colleagues who have to use the college laptops. They are so s**t they don't even have an ethernet port!

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Lack of human interaction.

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Visiting the kitchen way too often out of boredom.

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All the stupid house and kid c**p falls on me because my workday is flexible. Rotating laundry, picking up the kids, caring for them if they are sick, letting in the repair people, etc.

Plus my mom and sister who don't work always act like I'm rude if I don't go to their two-hour lunch outings.

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I’m f*****g bored out of my mind working from home. Say what you want about workplaces being sterile, blah blah blah, at least there’s human interaction. Everything over the phone, on video and on the computer is a pretty f****d up version of reality. I’m now at the point where our office is closed for the public, but I can go in a few days a week. Even though my commute is about an hour and a half total, I’d rather do that. Can’t wait until I can retire in just under six years, but who’s counting?

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And retirement would be better? I'm nervous to retire, because it might become a rut like WFH. Got to find a part time job, or volunteering or something to get out of the house.

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I’ve found it has really exacerbated my social anxiety. I’ve been 100% WFH for almost two years now and at this point I’m so used to only seeing my wife and kids that basically running into anyone else I know kind of triggers me. I guess the moderate amount of interaction I used to have on a day to day basis was good for me.

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That I’m actually not working. Instead of surfing the net, chatting to colleagues and sitting in unimportant meetings scrolling through social media, I’m now cleaning and doing my washing while pushing through a new series marathon. I literally then sit down, and complete all my work in 3 hours or less just before a deadline.

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Sounds great! You get chores done during the week instead of having to do them all on the weekend, and you have more time to enjoy the social side of the internet

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The isolation/loneliness wouldnt be such an issue during pre covid times. The combination of working from home, Living alone and quarantine (immunity issues make me high risk) can be difficult though.

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A lot of Cafe's and small shops in Cities are going bankrupt.

It's unfortunate but unavoidable.

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The flipside is that local cafes and small shops are getting more business.

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Depending on your living situation, your room can become your workspace and it feels real bad.
I work in my room, it feels like my space is now not my owns,.
I have had my clients see my room and it sucks

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Not everyone lives in a 3000sqft house with a yard in the middle of nowhere, even if they work from home. Sometimes you have to be in a city (either your partner has a job where they have to be in person, or maybe you just like cities...), and that often means smaller places, and noisier environments.


If you live in 1 bedroom and both you and your partner are in meetings at the same time, it can be tough to not pick each other's audio. Those soundproof booths are becoming pretty popular.


In the same vein, noise ordinances in cities really assume you're not at home during the day. Dealing with construction across the street all day while trying to have a Zoom meeting is rough.

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That we have to mind the house work too while "at work"

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I actually like that aspect of WFH. I work long hours so when I had to commute to an office I'd have very little non-sleep time at home on work days and so then a decent chunk of non-work days was eaten up by chores. It is so much nicier in my opinion to do a little house stuff here and there when i need to get up and move and then on my actual days off i'm not worried about having to get a lot of house stuff done.

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People assume that working from home means not working, no, I can't go deliver s**t..I'M WORKING

You have no right to lunch time since "you can eat alongside the computer"

You have no right to an exit time "you don't have to travel back home so keep working for a few more hours"

You sleep and eat where you work, psychologically speaking, you never leave the office

You live in a family that likes to fight? Then good f*****g luck

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I have to be quiet when my roommate are working when I'm home too. Basically I'm hanging out at my friend's work.

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Families don't grow close when they spend so much time together. They end up finding reasons to dislike each other more.

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The depression that comes with it. When my fiance was working from home while with a call center he hated the fact that "work" was less than 5 feet from his bed. He ended up quitting because he found it depressing how he couldn't ever really feel like he was getting away from work/terrible customers (anyone that's ever worked a call center know how bad the customers can be)

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My Zoom calls starts at 8.30 AM and ends around 9 PM (not all days, but most). I would still trade in work from home to going to office any day. At least I can turn off the video and not have to see people I don't like.

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Also, in cases of students who have little to no social life outside of school, it can lead to a great increase in anxiety and depression.

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You never feel like you leave work behind.

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I'm okay with it since I was lucky enough to not have to put my office in my bedroom. And the way its set up, I don't even think about it even though its in the living room. Just a computer. :) But, I can understand the sentiment for sure! I do live alone as well, so the cat doesn't mind my working.

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I'm not taking regular breaks. In office, there is regular chats, time to get cups of tea, little breaks from time to time. All because there are people about. At home, I work solidly from 8:30am to 12 lunchtime before I realise I need to stop and take a break. Then I work from 1pm to probably 4pm before realising I should take another break possibly. I don't finish until 5:30 and the last hour I'm just a bit dead inside.

I am super tired from I WFH.

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Schedule desk breaks into your calendar and have them pop up on your screen.

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I find I get distracted way easier.

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All of these comments are the reasons I went back into the office after about two months of working from home.

There are only a few people working in the office so it still gets lonely at times, but not to the extent that it does when I’m at home alone in my apartment 24/7.

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If you're not married and you die no one's gonna miss you for like...4-5 days.

Having to take a s**t in my own toilet and use my own plumbing and toilet paper

Being isolated from co-workers and have no social interaction with them.

Constant temptations to be less productive like your bed and Netflix

The feeling that you "didn't do anything" because you never left the house.

Complete dependence on a good internet connection.

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