u/TravoisMiguel

My company recently started requiring two in-office days a week.

What shocked me wasn't even the office itself. It was how exhausting the entire process around it is.

Wake up earlier. Figure out clothes. Sit in traffic. Spend money on gas or transport. Be surrounded by constant noise. Pretend to be productive while people interrupt you every twenty minutes. Then sit in traffic again on the way home already mentally drained.

When I work remotely, I log off and instantly have time for myself. I can cook, exercise, clean, or just decompress. Office days feel like work consumes the entire day even if the actual workload is identical.

The craziest part is I genuinely used to think this lifestyle was normal.