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    3 months ago

    Luckily i built a home office and gym with all the money I saved not paying for 2 hours of commuting, parking and getting lunch 260 days/year. I’ve never been in better shape mentally or physically!

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      3 months ago

      I don’t have the space for a home gym, but I do use my money and time I save from my commute to pay for and use a gym subscription. Also easily the best shape physically and mentally I have ever been

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    3 months ago

    Sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day is also bad for you so what’s the point. This bullshit propaganda is really starting to get old. Working from home is better for a lot of people. Corporation need to get over it.

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      3 months ago

      I’m betting it’s better for more people as well. Eat healthier, take more breaks, move around more as well.

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        This has been 100% true for me. I started working from home at the beginning of the pandemic and haven’t gone back. I lost 45 pounds in the first year and have managed to keep it off since. It’s all because I can eat better by making my own meals at home.

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      3 months ago

      This article isn’t about wfh vs office. It’s about not working in bed so you don’t disrupt your sleep.

      It’s amazing how many people who see “propaganda” everywhere can’t see blatant spin when all of the evidence is right in front of them.

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      When I initially became disabled, I tried to keep working desperately. I spent a couple of months working from bed before I had to give up.

      Just an anecdote. Most people don’t actually work from bed.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      3 months ago

      I once worked from my bed while I had a mild cold. Had a meeting with many international colleagues from all over Europe. I fell asleep. Luckily I had my camera and mic off. And it was about interfacing with SAP which I needed no help with.

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      2 months ago

      I read this article the other day and tried working from my bed but couldn’t do it for more than maybe 15 mins.

  • Starkstruck@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That is straight up not what bed rotting is. Bed rotting is when you’re so depressed you can’t bring yourself to get out of bed at all. Like, it’s a mental health condition, not lazyness.

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    3 months ago

    People work from home in their bed? I’ve been doing this for a decade and a half now. I don’t think I’ve worked from my bed once. Now I have a dedicated office but when I didn’t I, you know, made a small surface my desk area and brought in a chair.

    Regardless, it’s propaganda of a sort. For sure.

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      I was WFH for about a decade too. I didn’t work from my bed, but I sure as hell took meetings that I didn’t really need to be in, or was more of a passive participant in, from bed. Always close to my computer (on the same floor) so I could get back if I needed something, but those were the best useless meetings.

      But I don’t get how this is propaganda. It’s not suggesting that people RTO, it’s saying they should not work in bed because it will hurt their sleep. The whole “RTO” part of this was spin put on it by the submitter. So, I guess, on second thought, maybe you are right.

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        But I don’t get how this is propaganda. It’s not suggesting that people RTO, it’s saying they should not work in bed because it will hurt their sleep. The whole “RTO” part of this was spin put on it by the submitter. So, I guess, on second thought, maybe you are right.

        Why I think it probably is a form of propaganda, is purely because the headline says Working from home is causing it. If they didn’t want to front-load a negative view of WFH the headline would be “Working from bed unhealthy” or similar.

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      Same, about a decade for me too, and never worked from my bed once.

      If I’m tinkering with something, I might sit on the sofa or lie in bed for half an hour, but no way would I work from bed. Sounds like a sore neck waiting to happen…

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        If you ever start wondering why it’s hard to sleep, you might have your answer right here.

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      3 months ago

      I do if I’m feeling under the weather. I have a bed that can be raised into a seated position so that’s nice. I prefer my desk when I’m doing more mentally intensive work though.

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      3 months ago

      I FREQUENTLY work from bed, specially at night when I’m watching both TV and some script I wrote do it’s thing. I made myself a custom headboard that is outrageously comfortable for working upright.

    • casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      yeah I was about to point out that corpos certainly did not just invent the word “bedrot” for their own benefit. This has been a thing for a while. Nurses often have to walk patients who are admitted for several days to prevent “bed rot” symptoms.

      If you were staying in bed all day, every day, yeah you’re gonna get some severe health issues pretty damn quick. But if you’re getting up and moving around regularly, you shouldn’t worry… but in that case, it would make more sense to idk buy a desk, sit at a table, or on the couch. A laptop in bed is not practical and certainly not comfortable with the heat it generates. Quite frankly I don’t understand why anyone would ever choose to use a laptop in bed if they have other options available.

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        3 months ago

        Because comfy.

        I don’t even disagree with your points. I do notice that my back muscles will quickly undevelop, if I work from bed all day.

        But on Monday, I had a stressful day in the office, so I had no qualms spending yesterday working mostly from my bed.
        Similarly, someone who does more sports than me could easily counteract the effects.

  • Nobody@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    While slumping over a desk for 9 hours straight improves back health. Prevents 100% of cases of lumbago.

    It’s not just that the old money dragons of commercial real estate are losing money, it’s also that middle management nothings need to exert their authority over you in person to feel relevant.

    WFH makes every company money on decreased overhead. The war against it is 100% commercial property landlords that collect rent in the billions.

    Fuck every single one of those fucking assholes. They are destroying our world to squeeze out just a little more.

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      I mean if our zoning wasn’t so overly strict, those real estate holders could cash in on enormous rent prices by transforming that commercial space into apartments.

      Then there would be more housing supply, rents would go down, homelessness would improve, and those real estate holders would be able to get back to making profit, and there’d be less lying about the pros and cons of working from home.

      All of it could be better, through the mechanism of consensual mutual profit that we call the free market. If only the government weren’t constantly enforcing largely arbitrary rules about how this block can house people but that block can only be for offices.

      Keeping rendering plants away from preschools is fine. Arbitrarily telling people they can’t put beds and kitchens into a commercial space and let people live there is not.

      There’s profit being lost AND people going homeless because there is a third party constantly preventing us from making the deals that mutually improve our lives.

      And they’ve convinced you the real estate owners are the evil ones.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        Unfortunately the building codes for office and residential buildings are very different and it’s damn near impossible to convert many offices into residences.

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          That’s okay, I’ll take a whole floor with no showers or kitchen for a cheap price.

          It’s not hard, it’s just not profitable meaning they have to take a lost, you know, like everyone else who makes a bad investment.

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            It doesn’t matter what you’ll “take”. It’s illegal to live in a building that doesn’t meet code for residential units. Stuff like natural light as well as adequate plumbing and ventilation are important.

            And they wouldn’t just be converting entire floors into single units. Those would be beyond luxury sizes. You think a 50 storey building can afford to become a 50-unit apartment? How is that going to solve our housing crisis? Don’t be dense.

            For a conversion to work, they would need to be able to convert every floor of an office building into sufficiently dense housing. But office buildings are typically laid out with very deep footprints, where much of the internal layout of the building is far from any sources of natural light. Humans need access to natural light, which is why it’s not legal to sell a unit where the main rooms don’t all have windows. That can’t be fixed without tearing down the building and building something new.

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              It’s illegal to live in a building that doesn’t meet code for residential units.

              Yes. The idea here is that relaxing those laws and allowing

              Stuff like natural light as well as adequate plumbing and ventilation are important.

              More important than having a roof over one’s head? A “free market” is when people make their own decisions about what’s important instead of the nanny state doing it for them.

              And they wouldn’t just be converting entire floors into single units.

              I guess if plumbing is an issue then you could get about as many units out of an office as bathrooms that the office floor could support.

              Humans need access to natural light

              Last time I stayed in a homeless shelter I had zero natural light. I was very, very happy to be inside, and nobody was forcing me to be there. I happily, eagerly, traded my natural light for shelter.

              Free. Market. Adults making their own choices. Humans do not, in fact, need natural light. And the fact that some building code makes that claim, does not make it an aspect of reality.

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          Perhaps it’s still more profitable than letting a building sit there un-used. The market should be allowed to try.

  • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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    3 months ago

    Maybe the new WFH people during pandemic.

    I suspect that the many who always were remote have better habits established to make WFH healthy.

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    I remember back in the fifties how all the conservatives were so happy that all the women were barefoot at home cause they couldn’t have a job, but also simultaneously so upset about all the bed rotting they did. Then the damn liberals invented jobs for women and ruined everything. Now the uppity women are upset about “not having control over their own bodies” and “being forced to give birth to a corpse when the fetus dies” and “dying because of an ectopic pregnancy, something that hasn’t happened in the US since the Industrial Revolution”.

    /s (in case that wasn’t obvious)

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    TIL “bed rotting” is a TikTok term for avoiding the world as a way to deal with burnout until you decide to come out of bed. Doesn’t sound bad on the face of it, but obviously being immobile for long periods isn’t great.

    How that transitioned to essentially working from bed and the problems with immobility I don’t know.

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      I’ll have you know, I avoid the world just fine from both in and out of my bed!

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      I can’t even tell what online rag this shitpost came from.

      But I imagine its getting reposted a thousand times in those annoying headline gore ads that fill up every website not sufficiently ad-blocked.

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    Propaganda is really getting dumber. The shit they make up looks like an accident of a bunch of clown cars.