For me it is now over 8 months. Put 4kg on, feeling like being isolated. Initially hated working remotely, but now I do not want to go back to the office.
But on the other side, I’m very social person, so I need meeting people. Kama is the same... and we are right now like in the cage.
On top of that, we bought the dog
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About 10 months for me now.
Not put any weight on as I got into a routine very early on and stuck to it.
I live alone and haven't seen anyone outside of strangers at the supermarket and that's starting to grate a bit now.
I used to tolerate fools but find I have a less tolerant approach to them now. |
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I've WFH for over 2 years now (well technically before all this we went in one day a week)
Has its good and bad points... Sometimes things are just easier face to face, especially working with my team who are all pretty green to what we are doing at the moment. |
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Has its good and bad points... Sometimes things are just easier face to face, especially working with my team who are all pretty green to what we are doing at the moment. "
Yep.
Being able to work without someone perching themselves on the side of my desk for a 'quick question' has certainly given me extra time, but that's generally swallowed up by struggling to get a simple question answered as we're mostly working from home.
It's swings and roundabouts with an added seesaw...  |
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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago
In my happy place |
Im fed up wfh. I used to go in early for a few hours, drive home on my break and finish at home.
I used to go to the gym on way home.
Only see my mum in support bubble.
Saw friends when we could.
My neighbour is friendly.
But im wfh for a good while yet.
Better than no job. |
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Enjoying WFH immensely.
It helps having our own separate and distinct work environments in the house.
We can both do much more work than in the office, with zero distractions.
I said to the missus, "You realise something ? As and when you go back to the office full time, you'll lose 15 hours a week productivity time ?
She said "How come ?"
I replied "Because that is the time you spend travelling each week. You're using it instead to start work earlier and finish later".
I suppose technically, she's adding an extra 15 hours a week, but she's happy to do so.
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By *i1971Man
over a year ago
Cornwall |
Enjoying WFH here. Not driving to the office saves time and in many cases frustration with some of the traffic. Managers realising that there's no need to call everyone to a central point for meetings when we can meet with zoom/Skype/teams. Training opportunities now online rather than heading somewhere miles away for the same PowerPoint presentation.
Much of the time I'm saving is used getting out for walks. Within 10 mins I can be remote enough to be nowhere near anyone else.
One of the downsides for the towns I used to work in is that I'm not nipping out for coffee/lunch etc, so many of those businesses will have been hit, not just by me not spending, but the hundreds of others who may have popped in during the day who are now also WFH.
Wasn't keen on wfh to start with, but have made it work for me. Even when we can go back, I suspect I'll still do a fair proportion of the week as wfh. |
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By *pmsldCouple
over a year ago
kettering |
The real question is how many businesses will decide to switch to working from home permanently? A couple of friends of mine have already said their companies have decided to keep the switch even after covid which they seem happy with. |
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Think most companies will implement a much more leniant policy afterwards, after all they have already invested in infra, so only makes sense.
Big companies like Google/twitter et Al have already said WFH will be option going forqard |
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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago
Paisley |
City centres will suffer. There was already a lot of unused office space. I like working from home. I’ve had a rough few months visiting my Mum in hospital and then she passed away at the start of October. WFH made everything easier as we have full flexible working time.
I’d quite like to WFH even after this is over. No stressful commute to work, no parking charges, etc. and no shopping at lunch time.
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"City centres will suffer. There was already a lot of unused office space. I like working from home. I’ve had a rough few months visiting my Mum in hospital and then she passed away at the start of October. WFH made everything easier as we have full flexible working time.
I’d quite like to WFH even after this is over. No stressful commute to work, no parking charges, etc. and no shopping at lunch time.
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I think town and city centres need to change and become much more diverse in use. Less offices and sandwich shops, more residents and later leisure opportunities.
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10 years working from home. Often skive, but I'm more productive if I programme my diary to do short bursts of work, along with putting the washing on! Use to take a bundle of work to a cafe to see people but not get involved reward with a coffee, but that gets expensive. Not a morning person, so I often feel the need to 'go out' before I can truly concentrate, then I can really crack on. Separate room for work is good. |
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Nope. It's doing my nut in. My job is X10 harder and x1000 more boring and tedious. The issues created by dealing with students in-country (time zones etc) rather than them coming here is also farcical. How do I help a student in a rural area of Mongolia who's attendance is shit because their internet is shit? How do I help the student in Azerbaijan who is living in an actual war zone? We deal with students from these countries every year, but here in the UK! They all have fair and equal access to the same equipment and support. Yes, things always happen in home countries but we can give them loads of welfare support etc. My job has turned into something it was never designed to be and for the first time ever, I dislike it.
If it continues in the same way for the long haul, I'll be looking for a way out unfortunately. |
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it's hell on earth when living alone in a two up two down terraced house staring at a laptop all day. in addition the combination of doing that all day and then looking at screens in the ve on whatsapp/facetime/zoom - i'm going blind, and not for the right reasons!
although i have realised what colleagues i do/don't like and the answer is most of them i don't like or i'm ambivalent about. |
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"Think most companies will implement a much more leniant policy afterwards, after all they have already invested in infra, so only makes sense.
Big companies like Google/twitter et Al have already said WFH will be option going forqard"
Google, twitter yes but did you know that they cut the salaries as a part of a deal? |
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over a year ago
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Always loved working from home, more productive and no office politics....
On the downside, I miss the banter.
Oh... And no Christmas party/train wrecks lol x
Stay safe all xx  |
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"it's hell on earth when living alone in a two up two down terraced house staring at a laptop all day. in addition the combination of doing that all day and then looking at screens in the ve on whatsapp/facetime/zoom - i'm going blind, and not for the right reasons!
*** although i have realised what colleagues i do/don't like and the answer is most of them i don't like or i'm ambivalent about. ***"
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