自去年十月初公司關閉舊辦公室，一晃過去半年。同部門的一半人員已經早早搬遷去了那裏上班，剩下我們另一半要等大樓徹底裝修完畢才返回上班。在家上班何樂不為？在家上班多好，不用早起，早上慢悠悠地睡到自然醒，起床先log in, 佯裝上班了，然後下樓做早飯。中午可以吃上熱騰騰新鮮做的飯菜，不忙時，飯後有時還能睡上一個午覺。兩個人在家上班，不忙時還可以抽空打半小時乒乓球。當然某人上班很忙，沒日沒夜地加班，有時候忙得一天都不曾下樓，飯菜都端上去吃，可即便如此，他還是很享受在家上班。
First day back to the office (Return to Office RTO)
After another six months’ respite of working from home, a return to work in the office looks long overdue. Today, March 7th, marks my first day back to the office. Life has been good working from home, when I woke up to the natural light, logged in to the computer in my robe before I went downstairs to prepare the breakfast. Life has been good without getting up hastily, dressed and rushing to the busy traffic. Life has been good when I ate freshly cooked lunch instead of microwaved leftover, taking a short nap on a cozy bed whenever possible. Life has been good when I worked on my own pace without the little boss breathing down my neck. On top of that, time to commute is saved, so is gasoline and car usage.
But the comfort of working from home is not without a cost. Many a night, I was found sitting in front of the computer finishing up the linger work that could have accomplished at daytime. The line between work and off-work hours is so blurred that overtime becomes almost a routine.
As I entered the new parking structure, the gate bar automatically lifted to allow my registered car in. With heavy handbags filled with a laptop, a water bottle and some office supplies, I plodded to an unfinished elevator to take me to the fourth floor, where I am going to spend my whole day there.
A modern, clean and bright high-ceiling office welcomed me, but to walk through symmetrically and uniformly assembled cubicles without a seat chart is akin to a mouse scuttling through a zigzagged maze. After a detour and an inquiry, I found a hotel cubicle assigned to our department.
Hoteling workstation, as the name says all, is said to be a new popular cost-effective office model. Seating myself under a steel-plate-strung roof, beneath which crisscrossed with large aluminum ventilations, vertical or horizontal lighting tubes, cables, wires and fashionable decorative hanging lamps, I felt like working at a warehouse.
The office was quiet, except for a continuous humming noise in the background, as if a huge fan were whirring non-stopped. When the sun broke out in the afternoon, its ray glaringly sailed down through the unfiltered floor-to-ceiling windows. The long narrow lighting above the cubicles only adds to the dazzle.
I walked around and stopped by a corner window overlooking a main street. Shut off by the window is a hustling noisy world where cars are running among concrete jungles. A broad skyline of the city is visible under a half-overcast sky.
Drowsiness crept upon around 2 o’clock in the afternoon. I had to go to the kitchen and fetch a cup of coffee to freshen up myself. Other than that, a workday at office is no doubt more effective and productive. And amicable face-to-face greetings and exchanges between co-workers are a cherry on top.
暖mm，一早起來聽你潮濕的心，看看天氣預報，說今日有雨，原來三月的雨，就是被暖mm唱來的。：）喜歡聽你的歌，你輕輕鬆鬆地唱，我輕輕鬆鬆地聽。暖mm，外麵的世界有多精彩，你這第一天去新大樓上班就體會到了吧？：）一周精彩一次，公司太善解人意了，果真是a cherry on top. ：）我就等著聽暖mm講一周一次的各種遇。：）））
暖冬女神節快樂。 歌唱得真好，歌聲甜美悠揚婉轉動聽，我連聽了好幾遍，意猶未盡。
同喜歡WFH，輕鬆自由自在，但見真人還是有親切感，每周1-2還行。祝每天都好吃好喝好睡，好歌好唱，平安喜樂常伴隨你。眼中有景，心中有光有歌，活到老，唱到老，live life to the fullest，不留一絲遺憾。：）
自去年十月初公司關閉舊辦公室，一晃過去半年。同部門的一半人員已經早早搬遷去了那裏上班，剩下我們另一半要等大樓徹底裝修完畢才返回上班。在家上班何樂不為？在家上班多好，不用早起，早上慢悠悠地睡到自然醒，起床先log in, 佯裝上班了，然後下樓做早飯。中午可以吃上熱騰騰新鮮做的飯菜，不忙時，飯後有時還能睡上一個午覺。兩個人在家上班，不忙時還可以抽空打半小時乒乓球。當然某人上班很忙，沒日沒夜地加班，有時候忙得一天都不曾下樓，飯菜都端上去吃，可即便如此，他還是很享受在家上班。
First day back to the office (Return to Office RTO)
After another six months’ respite of working from home, a return to work in the office looks long overdue. Today, March 7th, marks my first day back to the office. Life has been good working from home, when I woke up to the natural light, logged in to the computer in my robe before I went downstairs to prepare the breakfast. Life has been good without getting up hastily, dressed and rushing to the busy traffic. Life has been good when I ate freshly cooked lunch instead of microwaved leftover, taking a short nap on a cozy bed whenever possible. Life has been good when I worked on my own pace without the little boss breathing down my neck. On top of that, time to commute is saved, so is gasoline and car usage.
But the comfort of working from home is not without a cost. Many a night, I was found sitting in front of the computer finishing up the linger work that could have accomplished at daytime. The line between work and off-work hours is so blurred that overtime becomes almost a routine.
As I entered the new parking structure, the gate bar automatically lifted to allow my registered car in. With heavy handbags filled with a laptop, a water bottle and some office supplies, I plodded to an unfinished elevator to take me to the fourth floor, where I am going to spend my whole day there.
A modern, clean and bright high-ceiling office welcomed me, but to walk through symmetrically and uniformly assembled cubicles without a seat chart is akin to a mouse scuttling through a zigzagged maze. After a detour and an inquiry, I found a hotel cubicle assigned to our department.
Hoteling workstation, as the name says all, is said to be a new popular cost-effective office model. Seating myself under a steel-plate-strung roof, beneath which crisscrossed with large aluminum ventilations, vertical or horizontal lighting tubes, cables, wires and fashionable decorative hanging lamps, I felt like working at a warehouse.
The office was quiet, except for a continuous humming noise in the background, as if a huge fan were whirring non-stopped. When the sun broke out in the afternoon, its ray glaringly sailed down through the unfiltered floor-to-ceiling windows. The long narrow lighting above the cubicles only adds to the dazzle.
I walked around and stopped by a corner window overlooking a main street. Shut off by the window is a hustling noisy world where cars are running among concrete jungles. A broad skyline of the city is visible under a half-overcast sky.
Drowsiness crept upon around 2 o’clock in the afternoon. I had to go to the kitchen and fetch a cup of coffee to freshen up myself. Other than that, a workday at office is no doubt more effective and productive. And amicable face-to-face greetings and exchanges between co-workers are a cherry on top.
