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As a WFH CEO, I Never Want to Return to an Office Full-Time!
It is beyond time to re-imagine work and re-write our policies and handbooks.
Long ago, maybe two or three lifetimes back, I remember wearing heels and business attire almost every single day. It was expensive, sometimes uncomfortable, and it meant dressing and acting like one person while on the clock and then getting to be ME on my off time. Ugh.
I spent hours in traffic commuting to an office — where I would mostly work at my desk and stare at/ work via my computer.
When I became a mom, It wasn’t uncommon for Vivian to be the first kid dropped off at daycare at 6 am, and the last kid picked up at 6:30 pm. My life was scheduled down to the minute, and I was stretched thin.
Being a working parent is hard enough. Adding my long daily commutes to an already stressful balancing act of motherhood and career made me feel like I was one unexpected slow-down on the highway away from catastrophe.
Writing this made me think of the two years I spent lugging a breast pump to and from the office, along with a cooler… This memory is probably better revisited in a post of its own. What I will say here is: it’s terrible, awkward, weird, and stressful to have to do all of the things needed to ensure your…
