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Working in an office was terrible for my health. Physical and mental
Absolute nonsense. The furniture company that made up this bullshit got what they wanted though - an article in the Mirror
It's essentially free advertising for them.
...but think about our commercial property values! The Lineβ’ would go down! nooooo! π
My home office is far more comfortable than anything that was ever provided for me by an employer. Iβve got a Herman Miller chair, a motorised sit/stand desk, a 4K monitor and a dog that lies by my side.
Mirror is absolute trash. They love the "make an article from this press release. They're paying us for this" model, especially when it's anti-worker.
Also there's literally a dog bowl in the bed shot lol
Theyr probably not paying for it, they're writing about it because they think people will read it.
Those images are hilarious, I work at home 98% of my time now.
I jog and exercise daily, much better than being sat in a sweaty office on rubbish chairs, trying to fight for a hotdesk to sit at.
Yep when I am at home I go for lunchtime run as can shower (or not until evening as who cares if I smell). I also eat a proper lunch
In office I wolf food down at my desk and don't gomoutside onto hot pavement with traffic
Do you not miss the time you used to spend in a crowded and smelly tube, sometimes with no space to move your arms? Why do you hate commercial landlords?
One client I work for 2 days a week, I usually do a 15km cycle into their office and that definitely sets my day up right. If I can't cycle and go in by train, its usually a miserable experience
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And the moral is that if your company wants to save on rent/energy by asking you to work from home, then make them pay for a proper setup. They have a legal duty of care to see that you are not damaging your health while in their working hours.
Anna is based on a home worker with no dedicated workspace who instead opts to work from bed
I mean, if I'd been working 5 days a week from my bed for the last three years then I think I'd probably be pretty fucked up by now. The article doesn't purport to be every home worker, it says it's about people who work without the right office equipment.
I work a few days a week from home now, but I'm fortunate to have a spare room with a good desk, a full-sized chair with lumbar support, natural lighting, etc. Not everyone has that. When my office first reopened, the first people to return were often the recent graduates who lived in cramped flatshares with overburdened shared WiFi, who had been either working from their beds or sharing a kitchen table - working from home had not always been a fun experience for them. The people most reluctant to return were those in their 30s and 40s who could afford the full home office setup (as well as who might not have felt they got the same benefit from having experienced colleagues around to learn from, given where they were in their careers).
While this is true, the headline is deliberately provocative and leaves out all the nuance so it works as rage bait, and potentially to "scare" people into wanting to go back into the office.
Most people don't read articles, unfortunately.
When I started WFH during the first lockdown I didn't have correct setup. I was constantly rotating my torso ever so slightly because my laptop was to my left due to insufficient desk space. I ended up with sore muscles on my hip (which took almost a year to fix itself). I got kitted out with a proper setup, at the company's expense.
Poor Anna must have ignored countless warning signs to end up like that.