"She'd seen the toll that working a corporate job had taken on her mom's physical and mental health, and she never wanted the same thing to happen to her. Around six months into Sura's first full-time role in 2019, she started questioning her life choices, as well as those of everyone around her. "I was, like, how are people doing this? Everyone seems completely fine."
"The move to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic was when Sura learned a trick that would change everything: time theft. She started taking long lunches and watching TV while on the clock because nobody was monitoring her, and she finally found time to do her chores. "I started feeling, like, okay, this is how I'm going to get through corporate America," Sura says. "For me, it was always a means to survival.""
Nicola Sura experienced physical and mental strain from full-time office work, influenced by her mother's health decline. Six months into her first full-time corporate role she questioned how colleagues sustained eight-hour desk days. The shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic enabled her to adopt time theft: reclaiming workday moments to run errands, do chores, or rest without taking official breaks. She took long lunches and watched TV while on the clock because managers did not monitor her. Time theft became a coping mechanism and a means to survive corporate demands.
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