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How to Fight WFH Loneliness
Too many people don’t know the dark side of working from home. They agree to make the change permanent, but they don’t plan to learn how to be good at this.
Is It The Best of Both Worlds?
When you’re a newbie in all this WFH thing, it’s all butterflies and rainbows. You don’t have to get out of your sweat pants, and you can forget about taking the bus or sharing a ride. Plus, you’re always home when your kids get sick, and somehow you manage to do the laundry between two Zoom reunions.
It’s the perfect bubble that makes you more productive and boom! What used to take you five hours to complete is now done in half of the time. You have that false idea that everyone back in the office was holding you back.
Productivity skyrockets, your boss is happy, and everyone wins.
Until everything falls apart.
The more you get used to working from home, the harder it becomes to keep the rhythm. You realize that you can sleep more in the morning, check your social networks more often, and before you know it, you take Netflix breaks during the day, around lunchtime, to see faces and hear some random stories.
There’s a dark side of WFH that no one warns you about when you start working remotely. People who haven’t worked from home rarely…
