Do you ever WFH in bed?

[Spocyfriedchi]

I have an office job. All I need is my laptop. Yes a big screen helps, but my job is mostly excel and then some word and PowerPoint.

Someday (especially when I have anxiety) I like working in bed and feeling all cosy.

Does anyone else do this?

Not all, but more! So not wrong at all.

More what? If you mean more people had anxiety but went into the office in 2015 than have anxiety and go into the office in 2025, that's not what you said.

It just wasn't a good generalisation to make. You didn't see the people who weren't there.

More people were working. Less people were out of work due anxiety, depression etc. The majority of us (not all I agree) had those factors in our lives but we still worked.

I didn't see these people but the ONS and DWP did and they are reporting the increasing trend.

I'm in the office today 😁

My job is remote!

They are not reporting that 'a decade ago we'd all be going into the office and think nothing of it'. You're making the mistake of conflating a documented increase with a belief that the issue didn't exist 10 years ago. Those are two different things.

Then, I have no issue with that.

Unfortunately, it's the ones who take the piss that ruin it for everyone else.

When I work in bed. I still do the work! I've received praise internally for the work I've done

Sometimes it really is the most comfortable place and therefore the most productive!

Yes 😂 It’s absolutely lovely.

At no point have I said the figures state that we were going into the office and had no anxiety, it's you that keeps confusing that. I have said in my opinion that's what the majority did even if they did have anxiety. I'm guessing you weren't one of them which is maybe why you are so sensitive to it. Again that's your experience/opinion and you're entitled to it. What we can't dispute is the ONS findings that the number of economically inactive due to anxiety, depression and nerves rose by 40% between 2019 and 2023. My interpretation of the drivers of this is clearly different to yours, but the government are presumably also concerned as there are umpteen reports on it.

Actually, you didn't say the majority. You said 'all'. You wrote 'A decade ago we'd all be going into the office and think nothing of it.' This is a goalpost move. It's also wrong, because you've done that thing where you think because you didn't see something in the workplace it wasn't happening. This is a separate point to what the drivers of the increase in anxiety are, and you aren't going to conflate the two.

Not that my own situation is relevant, but I don't have anxiety, worked hybrid 10 years ago and began working remotely a few months before the pandemic. A touch gross of you to make assumptions.

I had already, at that time, a policy interest in structural factors keeping people out of the workplace such as the expectation of in person work and lack of access to remote work. Then the world caught up!

@motionintheocean "We'd all be..." is a figurative phrase. It doesn't mean 100%, it means it was common to do something. If you take the English language quite so literally then I'm surprised you manage to get through the day. No goal posts moved, just perhaps went over your head. Oh and people make assumptions everyday, it's part of human nature. They are sometimes wrong of course but saying an assumption is "gross" is a little ott. I'll leave it there though as this is quite dull now and I'm sure quite boring to read.