What worries you the most about life after covid?

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Going back to the office

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Same. Going back to the office adds at least an extra 3 hours to my day

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Having to commute again. 🤮 would like to stay remote

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Do you think your company will be open to hybrid workforce?

One reason I feel it takes longer to get work done in the office is all the chitchatting🥱 and side meetings about meetings. I’ve had to go into the office to take care of things and partial returns just worse because people just want to talk about none work, vaccine, pandemic, stress, etc.? Please stop just stop. I have this app as my outlet 🤣

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Hahaha you're so right about meetings about meetings

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Feeling obligated to spend my weekends making appearances. It’s been truly liberating spending weekends alone doing whatever I want.

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1. Going back to the office: the commute, the open office with no place to focus, the physical interruptions, the inability to take care of things around the house while I'm working and having to do it all during my precious little free time at night (ie a load of laundry during lunch), and having to leave my pets alone all day.

2. Managing a social calendar. My partner and I had a talk about how much more we can accomplish or do for ourselves when we're not constantly going to social gatherings (it's also exhausting for me). But it means we'll have to tell our friends No more often, and when others have done that enough times they just stop inviting those people out 🙄

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Definitely agree with #2! I miss my friends but i can’t go back to pre-COVID times when I feel obligated to attend every gathering for fear of fomo.

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That it won’t go back to how life was before COVID.

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Lol really?

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