Top Work from Home Benefits
With the rise of hybrid WFH positions and employers and employees alike lobbying for their preferred method of work. I present to you the most logical benefits to continuing the work from home model.
Looking Busy for Your Boss
You no longer need to fill idle time trying to look busy for your boss. Of course, the need to look busy for your dog has proven an equal if not harder task when trying to convince him that an hour on the couch watching Netflix is better than that walk he wants.
Time with Loved Ones
Having to fake enthusiasm in a co-worker’s story used to be your daily lunch ritual. Now you spend breakfast, lunch, snack time, and dinner trying to come up with food ideas and fun takes on PB&J sandwiches for your kids all while teaching your 8-year-old long division.
Office Distractions
Gone are the days when Karen would distract you with her office prejudices and workplace gossip. Now you have no idea who is pregnant and who among the interns are dating. Instead you fill your time spying on the neighbors and counting how many times you can receive an Amazon delivery in one day. My personal record is 3.
Work/Life Balance
Arriving at a designated place of work made the day feel divisive and fragmented. WFH gives you the opportunity to constantly muddle work with home life and home life with work. Taking a business call while remodeling your bathroom is how you like to kill two birds with one stone. Never mind, that’s how you got the nickname, turd burglar, from your coworkers on Zoom.
Controlled Clean Environments
Keeping an entire office tidy and freshly wiped with Lysol took a lot more time and effort than it does to keep a 2ft. wall behind your Zoom monitor looking magazine worthy. A well-placed picture on a blank wall and you look like the next Martha Stewart! Just disregard the plethora of half emptied energy drinks scattered across your floor and the crumbs giving your keyboard a textured braille effect.
Commute Time
Not only are you saving money on gas and avoiding public transportation, you can catch more zzz’s and roll straight out of bed onto your zoom call. The fact that you have not showered in 12 days and are now immune to your own stench is a small matter compared to the Wookie you are harboring in your armpits.
No Pants, No Problem (Sort of)
Work attire is a thing of the past and pants are now optional. The only downside is the
severe third degree burns you encountered when your reheated breakfast burrito’s cheese dripped onto your pant-less thighs.
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Stephanie Purcell is a humor writer who splits her time between NYC and Atlanta, GA.
She tackles topics such as nonsensical home décor, fad diets and anything else she finds randomly absurd.
She studied with The Second City and was once an intern on the Late Show with David Letterman where she expertly proved her inability to parallel park.
