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I WFH at a standing desk and I walk and play with my dog on lunch.
That is straight up not what bed rotting is. Bed rotting is when you’re so depressed you can’t bring yourself to get out of bed at all. Like, it’s a mental health condition, not lazyness.
Welp, great it is time to crosspost to a boring dystopia. Again…
Sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day is also bad for you so what’s the point. This bullshit propaganda is really starting to get old. Working from home is better for a lot of people. Corporation need to get over it.
This article isn’t about wfh vs office. It’s about not working in bed so you don’t disrupt your sleep.
It’s amazing how many people who see “propaganda” everywhere can’t see blatant spin when all of the evidence is right in front of them.
I’m betting it’s better for more people as well. Eat healthier, take more breaks, move around more as well.
Also less stressful environment.
This has been 100% true for me. I started working from home at the beginning of the pandemic and haven’t gone back. I lost 45 pounds in the first year and have managed to keep it off since. It’s all because I can eat better by making my own meals at home.
I feel like getting bed sores and having muscles atrophy is more of the worry than anything else and it’s weird these aren’t even concerns brought up.
Propaganda is really getting dumber. The shit they make up looks like an accident of a bunch of clown cars.
I need a poster that has the signs off bed rot
This reads like a Onion headline
A fresh push for improved ergonomics isn’t all that silly.
That’s bad for the laptop tho. Get one of those little bed tables.
It’s a Mac Book. Getting hot enough to fry an egg is a feature.
New m3 doesn’t
Only on the old Intel models.
TIL “bed rotting” is a TikTok term for avoiding the world as a way to deal with burnout until you decide to come out of bed. Doesn’t sound bad on the face of it, but obviously being immobile for long periods isn’t great.
How that transitioned to essentially working from bed and the problems with immobility I don’t know.
I’ll have you know, I avoid the world just fine from both in and out of my bed!
People work from home in their bed? I’ve been doing this for a decade and a half now. I don’t think I’ve worked from my bed once. Now I have a dedicated office but when I didn’t I, you know, made a small surface my desk area and brought in a chair.
Regardless, it’s propaganda of a sort. For sure.
I FREQUENTLY work from bed, specially at night when I’m watching both TV and some script I wrote do it’s thing. I made myself a custom headboard that is outrageously comfortable for working upright.
Same, about a decade for me too, and never worked from my bed once.
If I’m tinkering with something, I might sit on the sofa or lie in bed for half an hour, but no way would I work from bed. Sounds like a sore neck waiting to happen…
I have definitely answered work emails like that
Working from bed rn.
It’s great.
If you ever start wondering why it’s hard to sleep, you might have your answer right here.
I do if I’m feeling under the weather. I have a bed that can be raised into a seated position so that’s nice. I prefer my desk when I’m doing more mentally intensive work though.
I was WFH for about a decade too. I didn’t work from my bed, but I sure as hell took meetings that I didn’t really need to be in, or was more of a passive participant in, from bed. Always close to my computer (on the same floor) so I could get back if I needed something, but those were the best useless meetings.
But I don’t get how this is propaganda. It’s not suggesting that people RTO, it’s saying they should not work in bed because it will hurt their sleep. The whole “RTO” part of this was spin put on it by the submitter. So, I guess, on second thought, maybe you are right.
But I don’t get how this is propaganda. It’s not suggesting that people RTO, it’s saying they should not work in bed because it will hurt their sleep. The whole “RTO” part of this was spin put on it by the submitter. So, I guess, on second thought, maybe you are right.
Why I think it probably is a form of propaganda, is purely because the headline says Working from home is causing it. If they didn’t want to front-load a negative view of WFH the headline would be “Working from bed unhealthy” or similar.
A fair, reasonable point.
My disagreement with it is that “bed rotting” is something being pushed in social media for people, including during WFH, so I’m not sure how easy it is to detach it from WFH.
But, again, I think you have a valid criticism. And considering the article is mainly about developing good sleep habits, I file the headline under “click bait” rather than part of some larger conspiracy between this local media station and big business to get people back into the office.
Yeah, even the subtitle clarifies things. So I’m not going to suggest the article is propaganda itself. But, they know what they’re doing when they put it in the main title. Maybe it’s just to grab attention. But, people that just read the title are going to walk away with a certain impression, I’d bet.
Consult your boss if you experience bet rot, and get your prescription for Cubicle™ today!
Rage bait, I suppose.
fknlol - like people WFH are working from their bed. I can’t think of a more uncomfortable location for my to do my job from. Except the office five days a week of course…
I know a lot of people who work from home, none of them do so from bed.
I once worked from my bed while I had a mild cold. Had a meeting with many international colleagues from all over Europe. I fell asleep. Luckily I had my camera and mic off. And it was about interfacing with SAP which I needed no help with.
SAP meeting from bed. That’s truly hard-mode!
When I initially became disabled, I tried to keep working desperately. I spent a couple of months working from bed before I had to give up.
Just an anecdote. Most people don’t actually work from bed.
My sister…
I did it on the sofa, was pretty much the same
I read this article the other day and tried working from my bed but couldn’t do it for more than maybe 15 mins.
