Anyone else getting fed up of working from home?

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Week 11 now for me, seem to be finding it harder to keep motivated. Missing the company of colleagues in the office. The novelty of zoom calls has worn off! Anyone got any tips to keep up the motivation / positivity?!

Nope. Love it. I'm saving £400 a month on train fares. Commute is from bed to coffee maker to desk.

My ideal would be to return just one day a week so I can see my colleagues occasionally.

Yes, it’s not great. Like previous poster in saving a lot of money and time on my commute - but there are two of us working pretty full-on senior jobs in a one-bedroom flat with no real space to carve out work areas, and when we both need to be on long calls or Zooms at the same time it’s a nightmare. Now that lockdown is essentially over I’m considering “commuting” back to my flat during the day to work from there (I moved into DP’s place at the start of lockdown) and returning in the evening just as if I were going to the office each day. Sounds a bit bonkers and still won’t have the interaction with colleagues that I miss, but will have a routine again and not have to retreat to the bedroom several times during the day!

I think many people who think WFH forever is an excellent idea are those with spacious homes. Our central London flats just aren’t built for it. And I have several friends living in house shares (because in London, even people on decent salaries often can’t afford anything else unless they have a partner to share rent or mortgage with) who are really struggling because hey have no option but to work in their bedroom all day.

Sorry, saw you were asking for motivation! And I offered none!

I’ve been running or cycling to the office and back every morning as part of my daily exercise. Keeps me in a routine and helps me feel like I still have an office. Option for you?

I like it. I'm saving a lot of money on car parking fees and petrol, as is dh. Had a bit of a conflict with my boss recently so I''m glad I don't have to face him daily, and half my colleagues are pretty annoying people ( very small team) so it's quite nice to be detached from that.

I like it but it’s made me incredibly lazy and I’m literally doing the bare minimum. I work in a sales/targets based role with long sales cycles and huge deal sizes but coronavirus means none of my team will hit target this year so no bonuses so it all feels a bit pointless.

I love my job when I’m really busy, travelling all over the place for pitches and I’m really struggling with not having much to do plus I’m only really in it for the money and if that’s not there what’s the point. I’m definitely starting to think about what else I could be doing with my life.

I’m not wild about it - I miss my colleagues in the office, I miss my coffee vendor and I miss my after work drinks and trips to the Tate. ( my old life! 😩). I’m also holed up with my 8 year old and seem to be left with all the domestic chores while DH goes out to work everyday. I don’t get to go out much but I think if you can that a period outdoors everyday as a “ lunch hour” it’s invigorating.

In normal times i loved my 2/3 days WFH. At the moment....with my DH in constant zoom meetings and a 5 yr old to home school/entertain, not so much.

No very bored with it here
I miss my office and colleagues
DS and I share large desk and try n stick to proper working hours - stop for lunch etc but I still feel it’s invaded my home life - too tempting to just check an email or work a bit longer
We also struggle with noisy phone calls, virtual meetings etc - at least when the sun was out I could take them in the garden

Not yet.... I've been doing it for 25 years.

Yes, obviously I've got space and proper furniture and kit, which helps. We never use video, just audio Skype and sharing screens which also helps I think.
Some people do better with a fixed routine, I don't - I can go out in the day and work in the evening if I want. But I have a 'no working at the weekend' rule.

I am finding it a bit lonely and hard to keep motivated.

Also, I have a young teen in the house. Obviously it’s not like having a young child that needs looking after, but I still need to make sure she is ok, getting in with her school work, etc so that makes it more difficult.

I've worked from home for 1 or 2 days a week for a few years now which was a good balance.
This ...
well it's just rubbish!
Working from home, home schooling two children and throw a 3 year old into the mix.
@Divebar I also too seem to be left with all the domestic chores too while DH is going out to work!!!
Not sure how that's happened

I'm over it, I'm on zoom calls all day and it's annoying. I cannot remember ever having this amount of meetings pre-lockdown.

Yes, my home doesn't feel like my private, personal space anymore. Feels contaminated with my work.

Exactly what @barbites says. I hope that if i had a job that I really loved it would be different...who knows

Yeah I'm fed up of it

But then the thought of going into the office is freaking me out 🤔

Yes. I want to be back in the office with my two screens, my colleagues & my after-work social life.

I hate it. I try and set myself some targets to do before lunch, and then reward myself with an episode of hoarders.

It's boring. Before CV I had a mix of WFH, office and visits to clients. Now it's all WFH...

I miss it. I have a great, motivated team, but it’s hard to manage people entirely remotely. Stuff that I would pick up in a five-minute casual chat in the office goes unnoticed. I’m worried about how some of them are coping.

And I have a home office and all the kit, so it’s easier for me than for most people. Don’t get me started on the farce which is ‘home schooling’. I need to get back to the office and DD needs to get back to school, and the poor cat needs her space back during the day!

It would be fine if there wasn’t home schooling thrown in too! The kids are fed up and I’m fed up. If they get stuck, I can’t come off an important work call to help!

I would be okay if mixed wfh and a few days in office or if I could go for coffee etc to break day up. Its miserable atm

Glad I’m not the only one! I really enjoyed it the first few weeks but now I am feeling quite bored of it!

I have mixed feelings.

I love not paying out on petrol, not having to take phone calls that aren't for me, less petty office politics, wearing any old thing, extra time in bed in the morning, using my own loo, being able to bung some washing on etc.

I don't like having to keep my children occupied, not having easy access to resources and shared knowledge, intermittent tech problems, no office banter, no double screen, no printer, feeling like I have to do extra to justify my time.

I am quite thankful that I live on my own so don’t have to keep anyone else occupied or share WiFi etc. But I want my two big screens and to be able to look over my shoulder & ask someone a question instead of Slacking them! Not to mention bumping into someone from a different dept in the lift or the canteen queue & having that sudden mutual realisation of how we could be working together.

I'm retired but DH is wfh and fed up with it, he seems to have meetings all day and I asked him if he always had this many meetings and he said no and he suspected that a lot of meetings were arranged so that people were seen to be doing something. DH is in the spare bedroom working as I could not put up with the constant Teams calls downstairs.