Lol, yeah, you can't put that toothpaste back in the tube.
Getting approved for permanent remote work status at my job has been absolutely life changing for me. The amount of time I save a week alone has been incredibly beneficial.
When I worked in the office, I had a 2-2.5 hour commute there, and a 2-2.5 hour commute back home (sometimes longer if there was issue with traffic, or the trains and buses were late, so I'd have to wait for the next line to come, which could take ages and throw off my commute; ditto for getting to work on time, actually).
Saving those 20-25 hours a week freed me up so much.
Getting off work and being able to just close my laptop, go into the kitchen and make some dinner, play some video games, watch/read something, or write/draw/create something, all within minutes of getting off work is amazing. Prior to this, by the time I'd get to work, I'd be exhausted from the commute, and by the time I got home after work, I was too exhausted from the work day + the commute home that I didn't want to do anything but go to sleep.
Time is one our most precious commodities, and we can't ever get it back once spent. So just having that extra time each day is something I don't take for granted and am extremely grateful for.
It's about 9:50pm where I'm at right now, and if I was still working in the office, I'd be getting home about this time (if I was lucky and traffic didn't suck). With work from home, I've literally been at home since I signed off at 7pm, and in that time, I made dinner, ate dinner, fed and played with the cats, chatted with my roommate, and am now browsing Resetera.
It feels good, and I hope more and more companies where WFH is a viable solution continue to adopt it.
I work in the video game industry, and, fortunately, a lot of our work can be done remotely, so most of our studio has opted to WFH, while the other portion that works better in an office (some folks flourish in that environment, so I think they should have that option as well!). It's been working out incredibly well so far. Especially once we got past the initial adaptation to work from home during the pandemic shutdown.
It's really sad to think that it took a global fucking pandemic that cost countless people their lives (I lost 5 family members to covid...), in order for businesses to recognize that wfh isn't going to destroy their business and profits, or encourage employees to be "lazy" and slack off without their micro-managing eyes upon them at all times...
Getting approved for permanent remote work status at my job has been absolutely life changing for me. The amount of time I save a week alone has been incredibly beneficial.
When I worked in the office, I had a 2-2.5 hour commute there, and a 2-2.5 hour commute back home (sometimes longer if there was issue with traffic, or the trains and buses were late, so I'd have to wait for the next line to come, which could take ages and throw off my commute; ditto for getting to work on time, actually).
Saving those 20-25 hours a week freed me up so much.
Getting off work and being able to just close my laptop, go into the kitchen and make some dinner, play some video games, watch/read something, or write/draw/create something, all within minutes of getting off work is amazing. Prior to this, by the time I'd get to work, I'd be exhausted from the commute, and by the time I got home after work, I was too exhausted from the work day + the commute home that I didn't want to do anything but go to sleep.
Time is one our most precious commodities, and we can't ever get it back once spent. So just having that extra time each day is something I don't take for granted and am extremely grateful for.
It's about 9:50pm where I'm at right now, and if I was still working in the office, I'd be getting home about this time (if I was lucky and traffic didn't suck). With work from home, I've literally been at home since I signed off at 7pm, and in that time, I made dinner, ate dinner, fed and played with the cats, chatted with my roommate, and am now browsing Resetera.
It feels good, and I hope more and more companies where WFH is a viable solution continue to adopt it.
I work in the video game industry, and, fortunately, a lot of our work can be done remotely, so most of our studio has opted to WFH, while the other portion that works better in an office (some folks flourish in that environment, so I think they should have that option as well!). It's been working out incredibly well so far. Especially once we got past the initial adaptation to work from home during the pandemic shutdown.
It's really sad to think that it took a global fucking pandemic that cost countless people their lives (I lost 5 family members to covid...), in order for businesses to recognize that wfh isn't going to destroy their business and profits, or encourage employees to be "lazy" and slack off without their micro-managing eyes upon them at all times...
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