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Do you ever WFH in bed?

339 replies

Spocyfriedchi · 07/02/2025 21:03

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?

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Shitgift · 07/02/2025 22:48

No. Working from your bed would be so slow. I'd have to use my trackpad instead of my mouse which would be rubbish!

SabreIsMyFave · 07/02/2025 22:48

Llttledrummergirl · 07/02/2025 22:46

No. I need 3 screens so always work at my desk. I do have a foot warmer hot water bottle, weighted blanket and heated massage chair with foot rest so I'm generally snuggled at home.

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😂 This sounds so cute!

Stealer · 07/02/2025 22:49

HowardTJMoon · 07/02/2025 22:45

You're right because of course God Himself decreed that the entire universe was designed such that work can only possibly happen when sat in an office chair.

Or, just maybe, not everyone's the same and not everyone does the same job so maybe some people find it works for them. It's not something I'd choose to do because I like my bedroom to be a work-free zone (and my back would be absolutely killing me) but I'd not look down on people who've found it works for them. People get paid to do a job. As long as the job gets done what difference does it make if they're sat in bed, on a sofa or in an office chair while doing so?

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It makes a difference because getting paid to lounge about in bed is taking the piss.

blueshoes · 07/02/2025 22:53

I have had Teams training with staff WFH in a bathrobe and sitting on a sofa. These are secretaries supposedly doing screen-based work. Makes me wonder what they are doing the rest of the time.

Seems so blatant.

Clingfilm · 07/02/2025 22:54

Fuck no, how utterly depressing and slovenly.
I do creative work so no way could I dick about with a basic mouse pad and a 12" screen for starters.
My back and neck would be in bits.
I get team calls regularly.
The days would merge into one sad treadmill of sleeping and working from the same spot.
I'd fall asleep if I was prone for any length of time.
Beds are for sleeping and shagging.

The end.

charabang · 07/02/2025 22:57

No, I need a proper desk set up with three screens and a supportive chair. In a previous role where I only did one day a week at home I'd save up my 'easy' jobs so I could work on one screen on the sofa but for fulltime home working like I am now there's no way could I even consider not being at a desk.

RampantIvy · 07/02/2025 22:59

No. It wouldn't be comfortable.

I would get neck ache, shoulder ache and a sore wrist. I would also not be able to work efficiently as my laptop screen is tiny.

I work with huge spreadsheets and databases and need two wide-screen monitors, a separate full sized keyboard and a mouse.

Besides, attending a Teams meeting from bed is unprofessional.

What kind of jobs do people do where they can manage with just a tiny laptop screen?

HowardTJMoon · 07/02/2025 23:01

Stealer · 07/02/2025 22:49

It makes a difference because getting paid to lounge about in bed is taking the piss.

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Today I spent part of the day working from my home office and part of it on-site. While on-site I was at my office desk for maybe an hour, an hour in a server room, and about an hour and a half in one of the site cafes. I was getting paid to do my job in all of those locations and in each of those locations I got a lot of tasks accomplished. My boss was happy with what I achieved.

If I'd chosen to spend an hour of that time in bed rather than, say, sat at a cafe table but doing the same tasks, what actual difference would it have made and how? Do you assume I'd somehow be less productive? Or is it some weird thing about working while being largely horizontal that is offending you?

blueshoes · 07/02/2025 23:02

What kind of jobs do people do where they can manage with just a tiny laptop screen?

This is also what I want to know.

Playingintheshadow · 07/02/2025 23:04

SecondMrsTanqueray · 07/02/2025 22:39

I’ve wfh, from my bed, all day today. I’ve chaired 3 meetings.

How would you know I was in bed? I was presentable and had a bland Teams background on. It makes no difference.

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Love it!!! I have done Teams meetings with my managers from bed and they've had no idea! The senior manager would probably croak it if she knew. I might tell her when I leave....😂

It doesn't work for me mostly is because I usually have to take notes of conversations and I can't really do that in bed.

I'm of the view, if the work is getting done, and it is, the 'how' and 'where' doesn't really matter all that much.

Stealer · 07/02/2025 23:06

HowardTJMoon · 07/02/2025 23:01

Today I spent part of the day working from my home office and part of it on-site. While on-site I was at my office desk for maybe an hour, an hour in a server room, and about an hour and a half in one of the site cafes. I was getting paid to do my job in all of those locations and in each of those locations I got a lot of tasks accomplished. My boss was happy with what I achieved.

If I'd chosen to spend an hour of that time in bed rather than, say, sat at a cafe table but doing the same tasks, what actual difference would it have made and how? Do you assume I'd somehow be less productive? Or is it some weird thing about working while being largely horizontal that is offending you?

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Actually yes it does offend me. I don't get paid to snuggle up in bed. And yes I do think you are less productive.

CorEckIsLike · 07/02/2025 23:07

Can w tell me what job you do and how I can apply

GreyWasp · 07/02/2025 23:08

I do when I am in a bad place mentally. Do not recommend.

Growlybear83 · 07/02/2025 23:08

RampantIvy · 07/02/2025 22:59

No. It wouldn't be comfortable.

I would get neck ache, shoulder ache and a sore wrist. I would also not be able to work efficiently as my laptop screen is tiny.

I work with huge spreadsheets and databases and need two wide-screen monitors, a separate full sized keyboard and a mouse.

Besides, attending a Teams meeting from bed is unprofessional.

What kind of jobs do people do where they can manage with just a tiny laptop screen?

When I hurt my back, it was far more professional for me to attend zoom meetings from my bed than to have to cancel several meetings whilst I was bed bound.

I spend a large part of my working day writing reports and minutes, and using a normal sized laptop suits me fine. When I'm not out at meetings, I work sitting on my sofa with my laptop on my lap.

Cheeseandcrackers40 · 07/02/2025 23:08

Honestly I feel like if you can't manage to get out of bed you should be calling in sick. Rest and recuperate then get back to work when you've recovered.

I used to have to work from our bedroom (had a small desk) which wasn't great for my MH so I can't imagine how much worse working from bed and then sleeping there would be. Thankfully we moved house recently and I now have a small office which I love for when I'm wfh.

I often need 2 screens and can have work calls out of the blue, if my manager noticed I was working from bed I suspect she would tell me to take the day off sick.

SP2024 · 07/02/2025 23:08

No, absolutely not. I need to be able to type quickly and accurately. I’m also in teams meetings and unexpected calls all day.

Playingintheshadow · 07/02/2025 23:10

Hazeby · 07/02/2025 22:47

Why do you put on a background? If it’s ok to work from your bed then what does it matter?

I don’t think many people would be comfortable showing their boss and colleague that they’re in bed and that tells you something.

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Does anyone know that the poster is working from bed? Does it make any difference to her conducting the meetings?

I started to use a background to keep my home private.

Playingintheshadow · 07/02/2025 23:11

Stealer · 07/02/2025 23:06

Actually yes it does offend me. I don't get paid to snuggle up in bed. And yes I do think you are less productive.

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How do you know?

You get paid to do a job. In the greater scheme of things, does it really matter how that's achieved?

EndorsingPRActice · 07/02/2025 23:12

I don't usually work in bed, but I love working early in the morning in my pjs and dressing gown and slippers in my home office, so cosy at this time of year. I do work well when wfh. But I have to be washed and dressed and presentable by 9am or I could be caught out. I've got carried away working a few times and then realise it's 9:30 or something and have to rush off to get dressed.

MotionIntheOcean · 07/02/2025 23:13

Stealer · 07/02/2025 23:06

Actually yes it does offend me. I don't get paid to snuggle up in bed. And yes I do think you are less productive.

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A bold claim, when you don't know what her job is much less anything about it.

Playingintheshadow · 07/02/2025 23:14

Stealer · 07/02/2025 22:49

It makes a difference because getting paid to lounge about in bed is taking the piss.

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How are you "lounging about in bed" if you're working effectively at the same time?!

MotionIntheOcean · 07/02/2025 23:15

Playingintheshadow · 07/02/2025 23:10

Does anyone know that the poster is working from bed? Does it make any difference to her conducting the meetings?

I started to use a background to keep my home private.

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I sometimes use a background just sitting on a chair at my desk.

miniaturepixieonacid · 07/02/2025 23:15

Hazeby · 07/02/2025 22:30

Fucking hell. Every single week, including this one, there’s a thread on here moaning about tyrannical employers who want people in the office and how awful they are and WFH is more productive, blah, blah, blah and here you all talking about not even getting out of bed to work.

It's not necessarily a WFH vs work at work thread though, is it? My job is fully in person on site but I still do loads of work in bed. It's more about where you choose to do the work you have to do rather than what your job is.

RitaFromThePitCanteen · 07/02/2025 23:16

I did this for a week when I had covid and couldn't afford to take any sick days. But I didn't really enjoy it because I was so ill at the time.

DragonfliesAboveYourBed · 07/02/2025 23:17

Yeah, I did in the first three months of pregnancy with DD2 when I felt like absolute shit and being more horizontal than vertical made it a bit better (I wasn't lying down flat obviously, but propped up at 45 degrees maybe). Not every day, but definitely a couple of times a week. I'd ended up signed off work completely during that same period with DD1 so working from bed was better than that.

I didn't like not having my second screen though.