Going back to work: I'm not even crazy I quit yoga class

Patricia Kolesnicov

08/18/2021 8:37 AM

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Updated 08/18/2021 8:37 AM

"The guy had never stayed at home because a son got sick, but now he was there and he will not stop being when he passes," says the consultant.

The consultant is preparing managers of a company for the famous "new normal" that is already starting, which for many has already started.

But there is more: the guy - and the woman, obviously - does not imagine himself crammed into the subway at 7 to be ready, with ideas and well-groomed, in that 8 o'clock meeting that is the kickoff of the day.

She has been doing it in the kitchen, on the couch, with her feet in her slippers.

And - as measured and the same are measured by other managers - their productivity did not drop because of that.

On the contrary.

"You have to see how the corridor is replaced, the casual chat," says the consultant.

He knows that good things can come out of that coffee, that grumble, that advice in passing.

Or rather: essential things.

And

that fleeting intimacy is chúcara

, however, it is not reached so easily by WhatsApp.

Sometimes the guy misses putting on his jacket and going into another world for so many hours.

A life like that of the people in the series: without thinking about the washing machine, the lunch plates, the zoom of the boys (or, lately, the time when you have to pick them up from school).

The worlds have now crossed, they have twisted.

You suspect that it will not be so easy to untie that braid.

Sometimes this distresses him.

A month ago, Forbes magazine spoke of an international report that indicated that 39 percent of the world's companies plan to adopt telecommuting as something permanent.

It is, of course, the type of jobs that this modality accepts and that is why in Latin America there was less than in more "central" countries.

But does the guy, the girl, want to work at home or not?

Will the engineering involved in not being have to be reassembled?

Can you afford to pay for help when it is needed?

Give up the dream of staying and living in that little house a little further from Capital?

"Mixed mode," hears the woman say.

And a little relieves her.

Because he doesn't think he likes a life without co-workers, that powerhouse of great friends and many loves.

He doesn't think he likes a life so inward, so inbred.

But - it must be said - for nothing in the world is that yoga class going to start, on Fridays at 2:30 p.m.

No way.

PK