How to navigate through your work-from-home shift – Wall Street Journal

The work-from-home shift, now referred to as 'WFH' in the apocalyptic age, took everyone by surprise. Corporates said goodbye to their coffee machines, office managers and ergonomic seats. And said hello to their dining room table and instant coffee. Sleep routines were forever changed when individuals were forced to work well into the evenings, well after they finished online learning with their kids, and put them to bed. Even those who'd thought about almost everything, like wealthy Americans who bought multimillion-dollar bunkers in New Zealand, could not have anticipated the exhaustive blurred lines of working from home. Wired to the web reports that working from home has resulted in a boost in productivity, with experts saying the biggest contributor to working longer is the absence of having to endure traffic. But this has come at the cost of employee exhaustion and mental wellbeing. With Anne Dolinschek of marketing firm Nfluential telling the site, "some clients and employers don't know where the boundaries are and seem to think people are available 24/7 because we're all at home, instead of sticking to working hours". After over four months in lockdown, there's a lot to take home from this experience. Christopher Mins of the Wall Street Journal says we may be in "the middle of a gigantic, unplanned experiment" and that companies need to play a helping hand with their 'home-force'. This is what he's learnt. – Nadim Nyker

The work-from-home shift shocked companies—now they're learning its lessons

By Christopher Mims

A shift potentially as monumental as the movement of workers into factories during the Industrial Revolution has swept the globe, only this transition happened in months, and moved people in the opposite direction—back home. Despite its speed, we're still in the earliest stages of the Work-From-Home Revolution, and it could take years or even decades of trial and error to get right.

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