The Fair Work Commission is considering basic rights to work from home. Here’s what the evidence says about the impacts of working from home on physical health and mental wellbeing.
This is basically me. I do all my work remote apart from client visits that are either in office or somewhere around town and I thrive doing this. But I only get to do this because my current manager gets my type of neurospicy and the public sector wants to cut down on office costs, in the private sector it’s all RTO now.
I could not do this work otherwise and I dread the day they decide to end this. I have no trust that this will continue. It is the first time in my life where I’ve felt like I can do paid work without burning myself out.
I schedule my client work for the afternoons and in the morning I just go from bed to the laptop in my jammies and a cup of tea and start from emails etc. I always have more clients and more downtime than my office loving coworkers (who I love to see in short burts).
A whole office day feels like a spesific type of torture in getting bored and faking it to me. It drains me.
The only day of the week that I hate with a passion is the one where the manager wants us all to come to the main office for a team meeting in the morning which means waking up very early and an hour long commute both ways. Every single one of these meetings have been ones that could have been an email or a Teams meeting.
It’s the masking that gets to me the worst. And the stealthing/boymoding. The funny part is that I’ve been there long enough that most of my teammates know me from before I started transitioning, so I’m pretty sure they’re just clueless and think I’m just a long-haired metalhead with a wall of guitars. But they always feel this subconscious need to interject “sir” into damn near every interaction at least once
It’s tiring, especially the long and pointless meetings that actively detract from getting any actually-important tasks done.
This is basically me. I do all my work remote apart from client visits that are either in office or somewhere around town and I thrive doing this. But I only get to do this because my current manager gets my type of neurospicy and the public sector wants to cut down on office costs, in the private sector it’s all RTO now.
I could not do this work otherwise and I dread the day they decide to end this. I have no trust that this will continue. It is the first time in my life where I’ve felt like I can do paid work without burning myself out.
I schedule my client work for the afternoons and in the morning I just go from bed to the laptop in my jammies and a cup of tea and start from emails etc. I always have more clients and more downtime than my office loving coworkers (who I love to see in short burts).
A whole office day feels like a spesific type of torture in getting bored and faking it to me. It drains me.
The only day of the week that I hate with a passion is the one where the manager wants us all to come to the main office for a team meeting in the morning which means waking up very early and an hour long commute both ways. Every single one of these meetings have been ones that could have been an email or a Teams meeting.
It’s the masking that gets to me the worst. And the stealthing/boymoding. The funny part is that I’ve been there long enough that most of my teammates know me from before I started transitioning, so I’m pretty sure they’re just clueless and think I’m just a long-haired metalhead with a wall of guitars. But they always feel this subconscious need to interject “sir” into damn near every interaction at least once
It’s tiring, especially the long and pointless meetings that actively detract from getting any actually-important tasks done.