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Are you having Work from Home Fatigue?

I have been reading a lot of articles and posts on social media, that Work from Home is more tiresome than going to office. In office you can chat with colleagues, take small breaks, have long conversations during lunch hour. But now, we write brb (be right back) if we need to take body breaks in between back to back meetings. Why this pressure? I do not understand - is it to do with us or the organisation? I guess it is to do with us. Let me explain why I think so.

Earlier before lock down, work from home culture was not very well adopted in most of the organizations. Especially with Baby Boomers and Gen X managers it has been difficult to trust subordinates working from home. If one had to work from home, it was under constant threat of being monitored whether online or not, achieving set deliverables or not. It may not be with the managers but in own mind we created that association or what we call nowadays tags. Tagging “Work from Home” to negative emotions like Fear, anxiety, constant check. Now that we are in this Corona era, we are having to work from home and our mind is now re- associating all those negative tags, creating barriers for us to feel free. Our own conscience and self-created guilt are stopping us to fully enjoy this opportunity to work from home, causing added fatigue to normal work.

We cannot control our macro environment, people around us, but what we can do is be firm and assertive to our priorities. Follow all tips I posted in my last post to train your mind to associate positive tags to work from home. Tagging “Work from Home” to positive emotions like being with family, comfort space, flexible, happy. If you are happy, your mind is happy and the work shall be fun and productive, and fatigue would disappear. I constantly say “It’s all in your mind”

Food or thought:

I love a beautiful quote by Caroline Myss, think about it

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself...the challenge is to silence the mind!!!”

 

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