As I have already admitted, I am an advocate of working from home.

I cannot, however, not state that not everything is perfect... Reality awakens me several times. I found a reason to grumble, even if I managed to fulfill the ideal working conditions.

Here are four reasons why I have empirically found that they are worthy of daily whining:

Schedule, which schedule?

As lucky as I feel to work from home, circumstances have forced me to change my daily work routine. Not once or twice but THREE times. For a person like me, whose adherence to the program is essential; you understand how much whining this change causes.

Promblem gone...

Let's face it, when you work from home, there is no schedule, or at least I am not disciplined enough to convince myself to sit in front of the computer for so many hours. The different preparation required for remote work in my field, as well as my perfectionism - we'll talk about that again - resulted in being in front of the computer screen all day trying to complete in one day what I could, under other circumstances, complete in two and/or three. So, late at night, when I say to myself "Enough, shut down the computer", comes this damn mail or this notification, to remind me that not only am I not done, but there are even things I had forgotten...

Where did everyone go?

I have to admit that working from home is not entirely responsible for the feeling of isolation that some of us experience, each to a different degree. It's not uncommon for me to think of moments in my previous work environment where I could have small talk with people. Not through the computer screen. Indeed, the lack of communication and its long-term effects are worth considering.

Anxiety? Be my guest...

Admittedly, the most important negative aspect of working from home is creating new stress sources. Productive stress, of course, continues to exist.

However, I notice that even though I have avoided several stressful situations, such as going to and from work, my daily stress, instead of decreasing, increases. It found the opportunity to replace the gaps, to penetrate and multiply... A new series of stressful situations have emerged: anxiety about a possible power interruption, anxiety about the internet connection, anxiety about various little things that otherwise would not affect me and certainly would not stress me ...Anxiety, anxiety, anxiety...

Despite the negative points mentioned above, working from home is still a positive development in my career so far. Weighing its pros and cons, I can say that the scales are tilted to the positive side. I am optimistic that getting acquainted with it and our return to normalcy will eliminate, if not all, most of them while increasing the list of positives!

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