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Word of the Day: Hit home
It happens to the best of us.
At first, we think an unexpected change will be as good as a rest.
Then reality hits home.
When something hits home a person realizes that a situation is much worse, painful or miserable than they initially thought it would be.
I think that’s either happening right now or has happened to thousands of people already.
This whole slow-motion train wreck we call the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many people to work from home.
Now, they realize that working from home is not as good as it was cracked up to be.
It’s been a sudden and unpleasant realization for many people.
The main challenge is things will not be going back to normal, if that will ever be possible, any time soon.
Working from home seemed like a dream come true.
People thought they could spend what used to be their commuting time catching up on their beauty sleep.
After waking up later, they could do a day’s work in their PJs while having a beer or two with lunch and playing video games during the used-to-be commute back home again.
No, nothing ever goes according to plan, and that reality is beginning to hit home right about now.
The truth is most people are not good managers of their own time.
Without their managers looking over their shoulders, productivity has gone out the window.
All over the world, people are going down the rabbit hole we call Google Search.
Hyperlinks are the bane of every easily distracted remote worker.
Company employees are homesick for their cubicles, loud offices and crowded elevators.
Everybody wants to be free.
The problem is that your average person cannot handle freedom.
The sad truth is hitting home – people have grown used to the predictability and structure that cages, I mean offices, provide.
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