Working from home resentment

[Mammut]

I’ve worked at home since the first lockdown. My job requires occasional travel but apart from that I’m in the house all day. There are lots of benefits of this of course, but I’m becoming increasingly resentful of the space it takes up in my house. I work in our small spare bedroom atm and the desk, screens, big chair etc just take over the whole room so it’s a nice space to use for anything else. I’m just resentful that my employers have managed to make me responsible for providing a work space. Does anyone else feel like this?

I'm hybrid, and wouldn't want to be 100% WFH. I don't mind having to find space in my house, but I hate the lack of human contact, isolation, worse access to development opportunities that often comes with being remote, lower quality of training that always now revolves around slide decks being presented remotely to 200 people, missing out on key information that you'd hear about in the office, building real relationships with colleagues etc.

I love WFH and only travel ocassionally, but I've started to worry that if I want to progress, I will be expected to either work hybrid or travel more. So I wonder if I'm trapped in this particular role.

Both DH and I WFH. He has the spare room and I've had to have a big desk to house two big monitors takeover my lounge.

The trade off is so worth it for me, as I do not miss office politics, huge distractions and others chatting ALL day, the commute, or having to source outfits each day.

About half the team are desperate for a base, but most of those are younger with babies or toddlers (and want to escape and/or socialise!) or others, mainly my colleagues in their mid to late 50s, are engrained in the traditional 9-5 at your desk culture. I'm 49, so no spring chicken, but I love it.

But I appreciate everybody is different, so I would look for a different job.

Not a bit. I love working at home, already had a personal study and it was not really very difficult to accommodate an additional computer and headset on my existing desk.

I definitely get it, I've moved my desk downstairs so my DH and I have side by side set ups

That would have been divorce territory for me.

This is so very true, too.

I fecking LOVE it. More sleep. More leisure. More time with my cats and in my garden in the warmer months. No 2 hr commute. Save on fares. Don't get sick so much. Don't have to watch colleagues be obsequious and hear them talk loudly, disrupting me. I already had a study though. I so hope we never have to go back!