Westneat: Work at home, live at work - The Columbian

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Danny Westneat is a columnist for the Seattle Times. Photo

With the pandemic maybe now ebbing, the talk of the town for those of us who were lucky enough not to be on the front lines is about going back to work.

Or not.

“Most remote employees don’t want to return to the workplace,” trumpeted a recent poll. It found that a scant 5 percent of workers, forced home by the coronavirus a year ago, now wish to go back to the office full time even if the virus is vanquished.

I have a friend who’s in this 5 percent. As soon as he got his vaccination, he whisked back to his office in a mostly abandoned downtown Seattle tower. Why, I asked him?

“The pandemic started out as working from home,” he said. “But it turned into living at work.”

This is exactly how I feel. At first when the pandemic hit, I was ecstatic I had a job at all anymore. Then for months I just felt fortunate I could do it, for the most part, without masking up in crowded enclosed spaces, like the unsung grocery checkers and bus drivers.

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