I know it’s horses for courses and all that, but I rather like that setup.
I get on a bus/train whatever or in the car, and get into a work headspace for half an hour with some tunes. I do my work in a specific location, I use that commute back to switch off and read a bit of a book; and return home to a space where work is literally at the bottom of my priority list.
There are absolutely some benefits to remote and hybrid, but in my personal circs, it’s nice having that big fat twelve mile geographic gab between “paid to give a fuck” and “not give a fuck”.
I know exactly what you mean. I couldn’t ever work from home. My house is strictly do-not-give-a-fuck territory. I have to keep it that way so that when I arrive at work I can continue to not give a fuck.
Each person’s circumstances are different, and Im glad it works for you.
My experience was 45 minutes drive each way (or 80 min bus) the drive was stressful, because commuter traffic was slow and full of assholes (like me). I wasn’t compensated for that time or stress, I just carried it. Plus the cost of a 2nd car for no reason outside of getting to work.
Work from home gave all of that time and energy back to actually get to live my life during the week, rather than enter a coma like state of barely functioning until it was time to go to work again.
The extra cost of working at the office wasn’t worth it. It wasn’t accounted for in my salary fairly in my mind.
The whole work headspace thing is easy. Get up , get ready, work. At the end of the day, go for a run, get out of the headspace, shower and then its home relaxing time.
WFH was/is an amazing opportunity for people who work doesn’t demand on hand productivity in a warehouse, factory etc.
In terms of climate change, the effects of wide spread WFH and reduced commuter travel was real, and for that alone countries should have run with it, providing incentives to convert unused office space into affordable housing and transformed the landscapes of cities into more walkable spaces. granted the time to achieve that and the businesses that relied on daily office workers business would likely not have survived.
I still got one of them old timey jobs where you’re actually expected to show up and do work.
I know it’s horses for courses and all that, but I rather like that setup.
I get on a bus/train whatever or in the car, and get into a work headspace for half an hour with some tunes. I do my work in a specific location, I use that commute back to switch off and read a bit of a book; and return home to a space where work is literally at the bottom of my priority list.
There are absolutely some benefits to remote and hybrid, but in my personal circs, it’s nice having that big fat twelve mile geographic gab between “paid to give a fuck” and “not give a fuck”.
As always, it’s whatever works for you 😊
I know exactly what you mean. I couldn’t ever work from home. My house is strictly do-not-give-a-fuck territory. I have to keep it that way so that when I arrive at work I can continue to not give a fuck.
Each person’s circumstances are different, and Im glad it works for you.
My experience was 45 minutes drive each way (or 80 min bus) the drive was stressful, because commuter traffic was slow and full of assholes (like me). I wasn’t compensated for that time or stress, I just carried it. Plus the cost of a 2nd car for no reason outside of getting to work.
Work from home gave all of that time and energy back to actually get to live my life during the week, rather than enter a coma like state of barely functioning until it was time to go to work again.
The extra cost of working at the office wasn’t worth it. It wasn’t accounted for in my salary fairly in my mind.
The whole work headspace thing is easy. Get up , get ready, work. At the end of the day, go for a run, get out of the headspace, shower and then its home relaxing time.
WFH was/is an amazing opportunity for people who work doesn’t demand on hand productivity in a warehouse, factory etc.
In terms of climate change, the effects of wide spread WFH and reduced commuter travel was real, and for that alone countries should have run with it, providing incentives to convert unused office space into affordable housing and transformed the landscapes of cities into more walkable spaces. granted the time to achieve that and the businesses that relied on daily office workers business would likely not have survived.