I think recently I've been avoiding slowing down — maybe hiding from my feelings a little, from having to sit with my thoughts — but the last few days everything has been so overwhelming and upsetting that I just wanted to be at home. And it's been a welcome moment of peace: the hum of the radio, rain smattering the windows outside, the record player crackling on a loop after the album ends. J bakes biscuits, makes coffee, dances around the kitchen doing silly voices and making me laugh. Still very teary and fragile but trying to take that and make it into something good
People who work from home all or part of the time are less likely to get pay rises and promotions, the first post-COVID research project into the WFH phenomenon has found.
A survey of 937 UK managers found that they were 11% less likely to give a promotion to staff who worked entirely from home than to those who were completely office-based.
Hybrid workers—those working partly in the office and partly at home—were on average 7% less likely to be promoted.