The Working from Home Puzzle

How to find opportunities for serendipity when working remotely?

Erik P.M. Vermeulen, PhD
6 min readApr 12, 2020

Working from home — WFH in short — is one of the most debated topics these days. Recent events have compelled many organizations to close their offices and force their employees to work from home. All aspects of the working experience are now being done remotely.

What can we learn from this unplanned experiment? And what does it teach us about the “future of work”?

From “Stir Crazy” . . .

After one week, many of my colleagues couldn’t wait to get back to the office. Working from home had become a nightmare.

“It is stressful and unhealthy.”

“I feel lonely”

“I am constantly disturbed by family.”

“My desktop sucks.”

“Curse you Netflix. The children are destroying the bandwidth.”

“I never realized my husband could be this annoying.”

No one imagined that “missing” the office would be such an issue.

The pop songs of my youth just don’t work anymore. I see The Boomtown Rats’ “I Don’t Like Mondays” in a different light. And I won’t even mention The Bangles or the much covered “Friday on My Mind.”

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Erik P.M. Vermeulen, PhD
Erik P.M. Vermeulen, PhD

Written by Erik P.M. Vermeulen, PhD

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