The secret I want to keep my manager from knowing
I’m ambivalent about working from home policy as it has both of my likable & dislikable disposition. As a person who have been working at home more than 2 years, I know what it’s like to work from home thoroughly while it can be a stark truth which I don’t want to share with my manager.
To start it with pros, it has cut my commute time to nil. That’s the biggest benefit I’m basking in, and the biggest reason why I hope to keep doing this. In the past, commuting was the bane of my life which drained me out after getting home from work. Lately, it only take a minute to close my laptop and shift to ‘private mode’. Money, time and energy I can save by WFH are unmeasurable.
Second is that I can focus on my work fully caring nothing. More often than not, sheer focus was not viable in the office. Nuisances such as tense caused by being easily monitored by people, and disturbance rising from surroundings were always with me. All those vexation have disappeared as WFH started. I’m no less focused than when I’m in the crest of productivity when I work in my room, listening to the background music in the app Calm.
Third, I have a benefit of relishing sheer rest in bed whenever I feel exhausted. Only 10min break is enough for galvanizing me into working with refreshing energy. It couldn’t be possible if I had to be stranded at the office during the entire working hours.
On the contrary, a handful of inefficiency is inevitable for WFH. What comes first is concentration. As I’m usually surrounded by a great deal of temptation at home and having no discipline or pressure, I’m apt to be occupied with distractions extrinsic to work. Just like problem occurs in the office being in the unnecessary social tension which leads to inefficiency, being at home has a counterpart of dearth of social tension. That’s the irony. I randomly surf across Youtube or crawl into bed if I encounter a difficult task.
The other is that I’m constantly gaining weight. One of the temptation I mentioned just before is snack. If I were in the office, I would have endured hunger until the work is finished as getting out and buying snacks were somewhat vexing. But when it comes to a situation at home, snacks are just within reach of me. I keep reaching out to snacks even when I’m not that hungry. It’s becoming an habitual act. That is the reason why I’m getting chubbier and chubbier lately.
I understand that when ‘With Corona’ phase begins, there’s no option I can choose but conforming to the policy of my company. But by calculating pros and cons of WFH, I concluded that benefits of WFH are a bit bigger than going back to normal. I hope the management doesn’t know the cons of WFH.
