Last week was my first week in a new #job. It was also my first time working in an #office since before #covid.

On Friday I finally found the incredible office #gym. Its full of nearly new really high specification equipment for both #cardio and #resistance work. Its also spotlessly clean. Even the showers and changing rooms looked really good.You would pay quite a lot to be a member of a gym that good.

I am going to be #WorkingFromHome from now on though. Damn.

Today has been a challenge. The part of my brain that pictures things and helps me to understand stuff went AWOL this afternoon. Think test card, television fuzz, blank screen with a beep... you get the picture (no pun intended).

Thinking it could be the augur of something nastier - this doesn't happen very often - I stepped away, made a cup of tea and thought nice thoughts in my safe zone.

It's one of the benefits of working from home, having a safe zone, an area I can remove myself to and try to refocus.

The nice thoughts were Duncan Fearnley Magnum bat, Gray Nicolls GN500 bat and the wonderful food we had in Japan, btw.

Another cup of tea followed by dinner, some favourite television shows and an early night are called for.

#WFH #WorkingFromHome #RemoteWorking #MentalHealth

Brussels pushes remote working to ease energy crisis

European Commission also recommends heat pumps and public transport subsidies

https://www.ft.com/content/bbc9c31e-cc43-41a6-8fb7-057d44b25a21

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#Europe #wfh #remoteWork #remote #WorkingFromHome #urbanism

One interesting 'winner' from working from home has been the ME group's subdivision WashME that install washing machines in third party locations (such as retailers or petrol stations); a sort of revival of the old laundrette.

Seemingly, those working from home no longer want clothes drying in the work environment, and indeed may not have the space for a washing machine & so are increasingly using such quasi-laundrettes.... perhaps a new location for office romances?

#WorkingFromHome
h/t FT

Special desk for people who work at home with a cat

https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a-pet-catphotos/

#HackerNews #specialdesk #workingfromhome #catlovers #homeoffice #petsatwork

So the International Energy Agency is arguing that other than flying less & driving slower, the best bet for developed countries to dal with the upheavals in the energy market caused by the US/Israeli attacks on Iran (and Iran's reprisals) is to expand working from home...

There's a lot of managers who are going to be annoyed by such high profile advice (not least as it will save them little if any money, unlike their employees).

#workers #WorkingFromHome #Iran
h/t FT