![]() If I sit at my desk all day, does that mean this is how it is going to be full time?” “Does sitting at a table or desk make it feel more like real life? We all felt like this pandemic would only take so long and it’s still going on. “I wonder if we almost subconsciously don’t accept this is real life,” he said. (Because sleep hygiene?) He posited that working from bed could be an expression of denial. “I was unable to focus unless I was super comfortable,” she said.ĭaniel Peters, 45, a marketer in San Francisco, specifically works on his wife’s side of the bed during the day. Poulomi Banerjee, 26, a fund-raiser in Maryland, said that she’s worked this way since middle school. Plenty of people, though, are unabashed about their choice to stay in bed all day. “I think everybody is feeling depressed from the pandemic, and when you’re depressed one of the harder things to do is to get out of bed.” “I spend way more time working from bed even though I have a computer, office chair and desk,” said Abelina Rios, 26, a YouTuber in Los Angeles. Working from bed may also be symptomatic of collective malaise. “I think one of the things we’re learning is that we’re all in tight places figuratively and literally, especially if you have a roommate or spouse, there just isn’t enough real estate in your home to have the privacy to get your work done,” said Sam Stephens, 35, a singer and songwriter in Nashville. Parents retreat there to hide from their homebound children. “I can’t think unless I’m lying down.”Īlong with fueling creative thinking, the bedroom can be a refuge from the chaos of home life. “I am a completely horizontal author,” Truman Capote told The Paris Review in 1957. Edith Wharton, William Wordsworth and Marcel Proust drafted prose and verse from their beds. Winston Churchill, a notorious late riser even during World War II, dictated to typists while breakfasting in bed. Frida Kahlo painted masterpieces from her canopy bed. Working from bed is a time-honored tradition upheld by some of history’s most accomplished figures. At the end of the call it’s like, ‘How’s the pandemic going? Oh, you’re in bed right now too? So am I!’” “I’ve been on calls with people where we were both in bed,” she said. Talking to others, she’s discovered how commonplace the practice is. Anderson has since switched jobs - she works in e-commerce for a spice shop now - and only works remotely part of the week, but still from bed. Come July, her bed had become her full-time office. She set ground rules for herself: She’d only get in bed after 2 p.m., but that start time shifted earlier and earlier. “My bed was just sitting there, taunting me,” she said. ![]() Anderson moved her desk into her bedroom for more light.
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