An Atlanta woman who, like many who have been working from home since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, blamed the prospect of returning to the office because of chores and self-care, including a lunchtime workout.
A Tik Tok user who goes by the handle @taylorrosee11 posted a video showing how returning to the office can negatively affect her overall well-being.
“Wfh is critical to my mental well-being and therefore my productivity,” wrote a woman who works in tech sales.
The Tik Tok video, which has gone viral since it was posted over the weekend, shows a face down.
“When you have to go into the office, that means you can’t do your lunch break workout, pack a healthy lunch, wear a little dress, and work all day bare-faced and in sweats/comfy tube socks,” the statement read.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 132,000 times and generated nearly 7,000 likes.
The TikTok user’s outcry has joined the chorus of workers lamenting the back-to-office order as many private and public sector workers push to return full time after Labor Day.
Wall Street investment behemoth Goldman Sachs plans to lift all Covid protocols as part of an overall plan to send workers home five days a week. Morgan Stanley sent a similar message to its employees, Fox News reported.
Last week, public health officials in California reported hundreds of cases of COVID at Google’s Los Angeles offices — prompting the search engine’s employees to privately protest the company’s three-day-a-week shutdown of the office.
Apple workers unhappy with the mandate to return to the office filed an online petition, citing the “special work” of remote workers.
The petition was circulated after senior officials at the iPhone maker asked employees to report to the office three days a week – up from two.
According to a Gallup poll, 60% of workers who are accustomed to working from home said they would seek other opportunities if their bosses called them into the office full time.
Castle Systems, an office security firm that compiles data on the number of workers sneaking into corporate buildings, said office occupancy increased 20 percent in the first four months of this year.
The survey, cited by The Washington Post, shows that more workers are returning to the office, but still below pre-pandemic levels.
In the United States, office occupancy stood at 44% as of April, compared to the period before the spread of the coronavirus prompted lockdown measures.
