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[quote=Anonymous]I think people tend to wildly underestimate the drawbacks of WFH.  Yes, you save commute time, but at the expense of no longer having a clear division between work and home life.  For most people, working in the office meant they weren’t distracted by the sink full of dishes, the pile of laundry, or other household chores every time they got up to go to the bathroom.  When they were at the office, they largely turned off the “home” brain and just focused on work.  When they WFH, the mental process of prioritizing and focusing isn’t just about the day’s work tasks, now home chores are competing at every turn because you could take five minutes to start a load of laundry or take ten minutes and wash all the dishes.  It requires more mental energy to stay on take than it did in the office.

And then at the end of the day, lots of people aren’t cleanly turning off their computers and going home to focus on home life.  They have the computer on the counter next to them while they make dinner, or they skip washing the dishes afterward in favor or knocking out one more work item.  It means your brain is pulled in twice as many directions every waking moment than it used to be, and that is exhausting.[/quote]

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