Welcome to week six,
Working from home has its perks,
Saving the planet.
Yesterday was a well-rested day, enough so that the typical Monday blues were cancelled. It’s a chipper day indeed! No pressing tasks due this morning, no fire drills, no rushing, no stressing, no angst, just a nice relaxing morning.
While the morning was relaxed, the afternoon not so much. A trend has emerged amongst my coworkers—a trend I have noticed happening pretty much everywhere—where the “work” portion of the day is shifting later and later as time working at home ticks on. So I try to revel in the quiet mornings knowing that come 3 p.m. my email box will not stop dinging! And that’s when the stress will begin this week’s run. But I’ve started to set parameters in an effort to remain sane and even keeled: I have a deadline to be off the computer by, and that time is by 7 p.m. I find if I don’t set this limit, I’ll be working until the wee hours of the morning, and that’s no good for anyone! But even I started to shift to getting up later in the day, and now I’m making an effort to restore my pre-pandemic routine but just working from home. I hope that 6-weeks in to working from home, I can encourage, or inspire, others to do the same.
On the whole, a pretty good day!
Stay safe, stay healthy!