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You Are More Than Welcome to Wear Sweatpants While Working From Home
Maybe not everything is about productivity as we work from home during the coronavirus pandemic
There’s a lot of advice going around right now about the best ways to work from home: Get dressed as if you were going into the office, stick to your usual routines, do standing lunges in your living room for a break. People are (understandably) looking for ways to stay mentally healthy while they self-isolate in the age of coronavirus. Now with the news that New York City could join the San Francisco area in “sheltering in place,” more people than ever are going to have to figure out how to be in their (most often small) apartments for an extended period of time.
Take it from someone who has worked from home for over a decade: Wear your sweatpants, it’s fine.
I can still get the same amount of work done (more even) when I wake up later, if I don’t shower until the afternoon, or if I take a call while cooking dinner. As for getting dressed, sure! But I’ll be damned if I’m going to wear anything but elastic waist pants in my own home.
That said, everyone has routines that make them feel their day has begun. For me, it’s browsing Twitter over coffee. Working from…
