Work culture feels exotic to me now. I am excited about the po-faced solemnity of a dependable pair of black trousers
It took me a year to adjust to WFH. I’ve just about got there, and now it’s going to take me just as long to adjust back to working-not-from-home. Not least the question of what to wear.
Working days at home are different, even when the job is the same. They have a strangely porous quality. Even on the good days, when you get to work in a quiet room with the door shut, home life seeps in. Cooking smells waft under the door and TV canned laughter through the walls. A calendar reminder for a meeting you don’t want to go to chimes in tandem with that funny noise the dishwasher has started making which you should probably look into at some point. Working from home means shapeshifting back and forth between identities and this, as much as laziness, is why so many of us have ended up swapping proper work clothes for stretchy fabrics and sweatpants. When you WFH, you never know what shape or size of hoop you may have to jump through next. Cookie-cutter work clothes just don’t cut it.
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