7 Reasons I Want To Work Remotely Forever
It took me a year to fall in love with working from home, but now I’m committed
Those of us in advertising and marketing have officially been working remotely for one calendar year. The Pan-iversary (I’m sorry) has come and gone, and we’re still waking up and dialing into roughly 4,000 meetings a day via Zoom or Teams. Still donning above-the-waist business attire (our cleanest hoodie) and below-the-waist “athleisure” (the same sweatpants we slept in). Still taking calls from our beds, kitchens, children’s rooms, backyards, front stoops, fire escapes, and bathrooms, depending on the size of our homes and with whom we share them.
And you know what? I’ve grown to love it.
In the early days, I found remote work to be abjectly miserable. I had crammed my “workspace” into the far end of my narrow galley kitchen in a one-bedroom Queens apartment, two feet from my garbage bin but directly in front of a south-facing window. Every afternoon, the sun poured in and heated my “office” to a broil, steaming me in a rotting-fruit-scented cloud of mist.
It wasn’t ideal.
So we fled to the west coast, trading all that New York City has to offer for a bigger apartment with actual outdoor space just blocks from the ocean. Once our living…
