Why Working From Home can be so Tired

Fu Kwong Or Ricky
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
2 min readFeb 22, 2021

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Credit: Luis Villasmil

‘See you!’

Remember when you shut the door and left all things at work? From that moment you are free, and everything work-related is left behind. No more coffee chats, no more meetings, no more burn-out.

‘Just leave it there, and I will be back tomorrow’

Everything is so clear-cut, the lines between Work and Life. You may still be receiving emails, reverting messages, thinking about what your colleagues said during lunch. But you are physically and emotionally disconnected if you so wish to.

But Working From Home has blurred the line.

You wake up, go to the toilet, have lunch, work, work and work. No more ‘Good Bye’, no more schedule fixed, no more coffee chat.

At 6 pm, you close the virtual remote work window and open Netflix. Prepare your dinner and browsing the web. Suddenly you realised that you are still in the same house, in front of the same computer.

You are more like living in a prison where everything is permitted. There is no much difference between you and the robot who manufacture thousands of electronic devices every day.

And since no one is…

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Fu Kwong Or Ricky
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Postgraduate in Law. Read books on philosophy and contemporary issues. Follow for more content. Contact: Foucaultfu@gmail.com