When the pandemic started, everyone who had an office job got sent home to work online and we saw a shift on how teams worked together and how managers handled goals and dealines. Now that the big scare is gone (at least that's what they're saying), some companies want their workforce to go back to their previous arrangement. That's not working out for many and some companies experience an exodus once they announce people have to go to meetings in-real-life instead of in their undies after waking up.
People love working online, even though it requires a lot of discipline and for people to act like adults, which is something not many can do all the time*, so I'm curious to see how working from home vs from the office vs hybrid programs work out.
I have two 100% work-from-home part time jobs, but I feel like I'm overworking for both, which is something I have to deal with sooner or later once I'm off the learning curve for both, and I work out a schedule for myself, because right now I don't even know how much work I do for each of them - but I'm certain that I put in more, way more hours that what I have to - because I have deadlines and goals to achieve and work with. I mean look at my blog, my last post was a chess session that I recorded at 2 am because I had 20 mins to spare and I wanted to stay active on Hive, but I was so brain-dead that I couldn't even write.
I have back pains even though I swim twice a week. Working from home requires discipline to deliver to your boss/company, but it also requires discipline to stick to a schedule and not work 24/7 because you don't even generate a difference between working hours and free time, because well, you spend both at the same spot.
I know I have to work out and stretch, especially if I sit at the computer for 12-16 hours a day, but I still need to deliver for both companies, so I have no time to spare right now, but I need to work out to stay healthy, but I don't have the time, but, but, but.
I figured out a solution, maybe not the best one and definitely not the cheapest one, but arguably the most-straightforward one:
If you can't work out because you have terrible home-office habits and you have no free time, bring the workout to the office.
I live in a small town that used to be all stables at one point. Not HBD and USDC like polycub's farms that give 20%+ APR, but stables as in horses, cows and other farm animals. This little rooms used to be a horse house, but it is now my storage room/home-office-gym where I try to stay as active as possible while being the workaholic I've been over the past few weeks.
It's not much, but it's honest work. People are not ready to work from home yet - I'm not talking about taking away their freedom of choice and that every company should move to a hybrid system, I'm talking about most people not being emotionally and empirically prepared to handle correctly their schedule and keep a balance between every aspect of their life. I'm not ready, but I can try even if I come up with these solutions, I'll get better at this problem-solving, believe me, but in the meantime, I'll read you from the horse house.