Working from home sounds perfect on paper. No commute. Flexible hours. Taking meetings in sweatpants. But reality hits fast when you work remotely. The bed looks way more appealing than that report due in an hour. Your focus starts to drift. Your to-do list grows. And you end up clocking out way later than you would in a physical office.
Fiorella Rafael remembers feeling stiff at the end of every day in her old office job. That lack of movement would creep up and compound over the week, she says. Though standing and walking meetings were encouraged, with deadlines to meet it wasn't always tenable. It's partly what drove me to become a pilates instructor, she says. Now Rafael teaches pilates at Sydney's Scout Studios, where she meets people like me who spend far too much time sitting.