Banishing Work From Home Guilt
When there are no distractions it’s a bit like you’re waking up from your previous indoctrination by the big corporate machine.
Working from home, or “working remotely” as some people prefer (usually in HR to soften the blow of lack of people sitting at their desks to middle-management, in their attendance reports) has become pretty much the norm in all respectful software companies that value their employees, and appreciate that they have a real life outside of the corporate grist mill.
I can safely say that, at least for myself, being able to choose to wear noise cancelling headphones during the day time rather than having to, being able to brew my own coffee (saving expensive take out coffee for special occasions), and not having to sit through a mind numbing and expensive commute whilst trying to convince myself I’m learning something from yet another dire self-aggrandising podcast or machine read dreary newspaper article have all been enormous qualify of life improvements¹.
Companies, of course, don’t care for quality of life improvements for their minions, no matter how much HR trumpets it every month in their cookie cutter emails about “free” online wellbeing seminars and suchlike. They just tend to just care about whether your work gets done on time, you don’t cause any ructions in the social fabric of the workplace, and that they…
