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There's more to this than just work from home vs work from office.

I did a PhD and felt similarly: I couldn't ever "leave" work. Home was work. My desk at the university was work. When I finished and started a real job I was indeed relieved that I could come home and, for once, not be working.

But it was never about the location of my body. During my PhD, my head was work. I had nothing else in my life. I couldn't escape work because it was my entire life.

When I returned to working from home (during the pandemic) I couldn't believe how unproductive I'd been for the past several years of working in an office. I would finish a day and think "wow, I haven't been this productive since my PhD". This has made me happier than ever.

The difference is, unlike during my PhD, I have other things in my life now. It doesn't matter where my desk is. When I decide to "finish work" at the end of the day, my partner is normally home. When I'm with her I'm not working. If I decide to continue studying at my desk I'm not working. If I go out and do some exercise or walk by myself I'm not working.

I was incredibly stressed during my PhD. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to complete and lived with impostor syndrome the whole time. Nowadays I have a much more balanced relationship with work. This is something you should strive for too, and then you might find the scales tip in favour of working from home, like me.



Yeah, for me it is still important to distinguish the space




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