Is homeworking messing with your head? - BBC World Service

Working from home may be the new normal for many former office workers - but is it good or bad for business?
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Working from home could outlast the pandemic. But workers' experiences with homeworking in lockdown are not all positive.
Manuela Saragosa speaks to some office workers who've struggled to adapt to home life, and to Dr Zofia Bajorek, research fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies in the UK, who's been surveying workers on the pressures they've faced in lockdown.
Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Manchester Business School, explains why face-to-face contact is so important for innovation in the workplace, and why flexible working with a mix of office and home will ultimately make us all happier.
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[@containedhurricane]

Most people like homeworking if their jobs are safe and if there's no salary deduction

[@KorKhan89]

That might be true for you, but please don’t assume you’re speaking for everyone. I for one really appreciate the ability to physically separate my home and my workplace, as well as directly connect with my colleagues.

[@bluevan12]

@@KorKhan89 So do i but working from home due to forced circumstances is not the same as doing so by choice also it was never mean't as a choice for everyone more like a select few who never needed to work in an office but others just want to work from home because they are lazy so and so's or hate people.

[@garthreid7114]

Working from home is not a good idea, simply because you are never away from work, it's in your face, people do not recognise that you are working, and eventually it Will become detrimental to your social life. It may work for certain people, but it is best to keep work and time off in completely seperate areas.

[@katherandefy]

Silliness. No it is not messing with my head in the least. 🙄 Who are these anxious concern suggesting posts. This is a great reason to quit with all the boomer whining. People are not well mentored on how to organize work at home. But sure. Sitting many hours of our lives behind the commuter steering wheel is not messing with our heads? Make that newspiece. Just because we have been sitting behind the wheel for a century does not mean it has not been messing with us but we adapted for sure. Should we have? Maybe or maybe not. The benefits have been clear while the demerits have gone let’s say under-reported by an incredible margin. So work from home in the era of 24hr internet news coverage is obviously pretty unconvincing as arguments go. Reporters have been working remotely since the get-go. On the beat to gather the reportage at the location of each story. Except the opinion pieces which is secondary to reporting news. They have been working remotely probably the longest or close to the longest of all professionals. It’s like now that the rest of us can work from home, they somehow make the usual opinion pieces citing news that bleeds clickbait. Instead they could mentor the rest of us on successful transition to working elsewhere than in offices, factories, or wherever work can be done. Manufacturing may keep to the factory with ramp up to automation but we have got to be kidding. Do many many newspieces worth the views and contribute to our transition so that people who have not been in work environments for knowledge and information can mobilize upward and make better pay. Simple skills exist to make that transition. Be a solid educator and promoter for the future of work. Enough of this maudlin ridiculous hand wringing. ~GenXr