Why Working from Home is Not My Ideal Situation

The work from home movement has become an increased demand, but personally…I’m not sure how well I’d adapt

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Given the ongoing evolution of the landscape of work, individuals’ identities are becoming less defined by “what we do for a living” and more by “who we are outside of what we do”. In light of that, the demand to work from home has been on the rise for many of us who are confined to cubicle space inside an office. One can even say, working from home is becoming the new norm.

For example, the resume of a “typical” Mom is not as typical as it was before. Now, there is no “typical” Mom. Instead, she’s a working Mom, who not only supports her family with a full-time job, but maybe also runs marathons, or volunteers within her community, or attends a book club, or does a number of other things outside of that full-time job. And with this juggling act that she takes on each day, the need to work from home once in a while has become a more common request.

However, in this day and age, it’s not just the working Moms who are asking their employers if they can work from home. Now, its employees who may want to permanently work remotely or employees whose commutes are equivalent to half the time that they spend physically being at work. And when it…