The WFH problems

Hello and welcome back to my blog. While I love to be back, because writing is where my soul is, I had missed it. Missed many of the things that I would usually love to embrace.

I had written about the endless scrolling in my LinkedIn post. Well, I think the main reason behind scrolling is being worsened by WFH aka Work from home - the famous work culture after covid.

Do you remeber anybody with a back pain before covid? I don't remember, at least within my own team. Because we had the ergonomic chairs and desk set-up.

We had actual people to talk to, apart from meetings - not just about work and boosting up our career. We had coffee  or tea together, lunch together and a great chat. I had even written a nice poem about how beautiful Cognizant Kochi was on a rainy day with one of my good friends.

I had a very tough post pregnancy. But, my work and office and people there made it easy for me. 

The first time, going to office, after 2.5 or 3 years to work was exciting but was over driving my mind, because I have not heard so many people talk to me in past 3 years in one single day. It was so overwhelming that, I was hearing voices and words that were spoken that day repeating in my head. I couldn't sleep.

But, I made sure I went to office atleast once a week to actually cope with social anxiety.

And come on, this Nov 2024 just ruined all my plans. While work from home gives us a lot of privileges to take care of so many other things, many people, who would actually pitch in to help and take care of things has backed off. The support for working mothers, the safe haven, is no longer a reality.

Wake up early. Walk or exercise. Cook. Clean. Eat. Work. Teach kids. Repeat.

This endless loop of things has made many lives lonely. The conversation they have is only on meetings and just to keep their kids life going, they talk to some auto Anna's and Vegetable vendors. 

And then this Blinkit and Zepto and Swiggy (though I secretly love and order in them very frequently) has reduced the human conversations even at retail stores and vegetable and fruit shops. By this much automation and sophistication, what are we trying to achieve?

Why are people not even free to get their own stuff in actual shops and cook their own food? 

If you talk of a social lunch and a movie time - spoilers- Zomato, Swiggy, Netflix, Amazon Prime, the list is endless.

With all this screen time and again sophistication and offers on all these platforms, what are we trying to achieve?

I hope we find the answer.

Until next rant.

Shree