Remote Work Summer 2022 Edition
White collar workers still not fully back into the office
Here we are in July 2022 a full two years and six months after Covid officially landed on the shores of the United States. I happen to live just a couple of miles from ground zero the assisted living center in Kirkland, WA where Covid first did its devastating dance on a facility filled with old frail people. I even know (casually) the woman that used to be the lead administrator for that facility. It was a mess.
Here we are some 30 months after all of that. Many of you have had Covid. I had Covid in May of this year. It was a pretty mild case and probably some variant of Omicron. I probably picked it up at my office where they make us go back and sit at a desk one day a week for “collaboration”.
By trade, I am a software engineer and to be honest, I hate going to the office. It fills me with anxiety. I think mostly because I likely have undiagnosed ADHD and sitting still and not flipping through Google or reading the news on my computer all day long, drives me nuts. (I once got admonished by a director for having CNN up on my monitor when she walked by) Many times I just need to get up and walk around just to clear my head. I can concentrate much better without the office distractions and noise. Open office plans are the death of me. The…
