Short YouTube video (creator: Patrick Biddiscombe, uploaded Oct 8, 2020) compiling multiple first-person testimonials about how remote work improves personal well-being and authenticity. Speakers report reduced anxiety, ability to manage chronic illness, reclaimed commuting time ("two and a half hours"), increased productivity and learning time, better control of environment, and stronger remote social connections.
Chapters
I'm allowed to just be myself when I work remotely, and I'm allowed to let the work speak for itself.
Being remote has been absolutely crucial to my work life and my personal life.
Remote work has really like, improved my sense of self.
I have quite a few chronic illnesses, and being able to have the opportunity to take care of myself throughout the day while working changed the game for me. I did not realize how much it was going to change essentially my life.
For me, working remotely has allowed me to reclaim the time that I would have spent commuting. Those two and a half hours that I get at the beginning and the end of my day that would have been spent commuting on New York City subway. I can now spend at home further advancing myself, learning different things.
Since being remote and being able to really control my environment, control variables, it improves literally my health. It helps me just be a happy, more productive person in general.
Being able to be remote, I can be my authentic self. It's taking out the anxiety a lot less pressure to present yourself in a way other than how you authentically are.
As an introvert, I'm able to really portion out how I spend my energy.
To be completely honest with you, I think I feel more connected to the folks who I work with in this remote team than I did even when I was working in office. And I think the amount of different people I've been able to meet without actually having to leave my apartment is pretty unbelievable. It completely levels the playing field.
It allows for an equal, cool playing field in many ways and allows for everyone to be able to find a fit that works for them.
