What I’ve Learned Working From Home During A Pandemic

This article first ran on SusanDavis.com

For those lucky of us to work from home, it has now been a few months since we retreated to our home offices. And we never, ever left.

When our great migration home began, there was a wave of advice about how to properly work from home. They all gave the same advice. Keep your routine. Shower every morning. Treat your home like an office. Advice that became outdated by your third consecutive day at home and you went to Google to figure out if it was Thursday or Friday, and it ended up being Wednesday.

I have several friends and former colleagues who worked remotely every day before the coronavirus pandemic hit. As one of them from Michigan told me since, “My work day is the same, but I can’t leave the house.” Ah yes, that minor difference.

Her insight inspired me to share some of the lessons I’ve learned about working from home, and what it reveals about us.

We All Hate Pants

Possibly my favorite Simpsons line ever came during an episode where Krusty has become a “shock” comic and railing about society. He looks to the audience for things they hate and Homer yells out, “Don’t you hate pants?!?” The scene ends with a disgusted Homer throwing his pants at the stage in rage.