Anyone else feel like WFH has totally obliterated any work/life balance you had pre COVID-19?

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Actual quote from my boss: “I cannot see how anyone cannot be billing ten hours a day now.”

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What a clown. Trying billing 6 hours a day with minimal work and kids running around all day while your spouse is also trying to work. I swear some people are so oblivious.

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Definitely. Whatever boundaries I worked to create over the past 6-7 years have been eroded during this time. Just because I’m near my computer doesn’t mean that I have 24/7 availability.

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Yeah...no it's almost all life and almost no work 😢

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Yes and EVERYTHING is an “emergency” — it’s either drowning in work or nothing and getting hounded about keeping hours up 🙄

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Yes completely. I feel like there is an assumption that you are home and available all the time to respond and action something immediately- including weekends. I received an email around 9am on a Saturday with a follow up around 10.30am. Didn’t see it till about 10.45am as I had a lie in from working all nighters every night during the “working week” (lol what’s that??) and just needed to catch up on sleep.

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Yes. No buffer between work and home.

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Absolutely. It also seems like partners are caring less about planning ahead since they believe the emergency clean-up crew is around 24-7... I am extremely grateful for my job, but I wish there was a little more room for boundaries.

God yes everyone seems like they are trying to escape their families and are just working constantly

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I kind of feel like nothing has changed, but that may speak more to how things were before...

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