Think “Work From Home” Means Working Less? Think Again
Those micro-moments of downtime are critical for mental and physical health
Monday morning. I sit at the desk in my house, sunlight streaming into my work-from-home space, hoping for a moment’s rest before the onslaught of meetings and requests come in.
It’s worse than I thought. In my Outlook calendar, there are actually meetings overlapping each other — you know those side by side meetings.
Well, that’s great. I forgot to clone myself this morning.
So, I usually just use the “eney meeny miny moe” (yes I did in fact have to Google that spelling) or the rock, paper, scissors approach to pick which to go to. Or maybe it just goes to the person who picked up a coffee for me last time or liked my idea in the last meeting.
Unfortunately, working from home means I can’t walk over to said meeting sender’s desk and see how critical I am. It also means that not only are meetings side by side but back to back, meaning there’s no break between meetings. I don’t know about you, but this is a problem for my introverted self. I thrive on downtime — time to process and time to actually use my overly analytical brain.
