2 Days in Office, but the Stress is Real!

I think it’s valid to feel stressed about it. I know there’s the mindset of “at least it’s not five days” but also you could work from home five days a week so why aren’t we talking about that? When I was in office I had a similar commute to you. Maybe an extra fifteen minutes each way. I don’t think people realize how much it eats up your day and you’re not even getting paid for it. Not to mention the hour unpaid lunch. So that’s like 3 hours of unpaid time per day and you could be doing so much with that time. On my office days I was always much more exhausted after work than my work from home days. I would even get headaches those days. I think hybrid is stupid because it makes it difficult to get into a consistent routine. It’s good for you to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day so I would have to get up super early on my work from home days for no reason if I wanted to maintain that. I agree that there isn’t a good reason to work in office when you have all your meetings virtually anyway. Nobody can focus because it’s loud and people interrupt. You get no control over lighting, temperature, noise levels. You don’t have food and drinks or a bathroom 10 steps away. How is any of that helpful for focusing? Then there’s the unsettling feeling of knowing they can and probably will add more days at any time, just when you get used to a specific schedule. And I don’t know about you but RTO has also made management less flexible. A hybrid schedule wouldn’t be so bad if it was flexible. I get it people are saying this has always been the norm and