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I am a designer based in San Francisco and have been working from home, or more specifically from my couch since the pandemic started. I started daily drawing and posting these on Instagram to help cope with stress and blow off some steam. In these drawings, I explore blessings, challenges, and absurdities we have to deal with while working from home.

In fact, I was sitting on the couch so much in the past two years it completely broke down. For convenience, I ordered a new one and it arrived in such an enormous box that it had trouble fitting through the door. These types of everyday work-from-home situations have been an endless source of ideas and inspiration. I try to create one new drawing every day. I’ve enjoyed drawing these, and hope you’ll like them too!

If you've missed my previous posts that are in a similar vein, you may find them here: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X.

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Working

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Clara Straka
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4 years ago

The truth is Nothing but the truth!

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    #2

    At Work

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    Purbasha Banai
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Umm. I was thinking a pie chart could've been better

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    #3

    Workweek And Weekend

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    Orlando Pitcher
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    It's true though. Even without home work.

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    #4

    Day And Night

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    Abigail Suarez
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    4 years ago

    It's funny how you want to sleep when your working but you lay down and want to finish your work

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    #5

    Working From Home

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    Nat Rich
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Yup, spontaneous video calls are the worst!

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    #6

    Amount Of Actual Work

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    Hugo Raible
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Office is for socializing, if you want to get actual work done, WFH.

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    #7

    On A Video Call

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    ima cat
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I don't have enough energy to suppress all of my anger :P

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    #8

    2 Types Of Coworkers

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    Lilia Loewenberg
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I'm the second one

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    #9

    Sleep

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    Orlando Pitcher
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    4 years ago

    Don't you love when the alarm goes off you sleep for 5 more minutes then wake up to find you've slept for 8 years.

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    #10

    On A Video Call

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    Tami
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    4 years ago (edited)

    Frantically clicking to close a web page you just landed on because it started playing a video that of course started with something like "Heeeyyy m u t h a fukaaas."

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    #11

    This Was An Office Worker

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    Corgo Man
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    4 years ago

    Once he got there, he was never seen again alive, just like every other person who entered

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    #12

    Returning To The Office

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    Abigail Suarez
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    4 years ago

    It'll be so weird when everyone goes back in person

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    #13

    Returning To Office

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    Honu
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    This is one of the things I just don't understand about my current employer trying to get us to go into the office more. For years, most of us have been on teams that have members in multiple locations. We were having all our meetings via teleconference before the pandemic. Whether I'm in the office or at home, doesn't matter. I'm still not seeing most of my team in person and never have.

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    #14

    Back To The Office

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    Mimi La Souris
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    🤣

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    #15

    Work Day

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    Filiwegeian
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    4 years ago

    This is why I don't want to go back to the office. I don't ever want to feel that way again.

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    Monday

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    Tami
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    That be a double shot.

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    #17

    Things I Miss About The Office

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    ZAPanda
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Do not miss any of this, totally 100% happy about WFH. Never want to return to office. Everrrrrr.

    Marta Kęska
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Same here. I can't imagine going back to working from office all the time and the moment my company decides to force us to go back I'll resign :|

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    Martha Meyer
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    4 years ago (edited)

    I literally miss none of these things and I still look forward to weekends.

    Honu
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I do like being able to see my coworkers, but I don't need to see them every day. Almost all the people I work with want to mix WFH and in-office work. They want to go in one or two days and work from home the rest of the time. But if they had to choose 100% in-office or 100% from-home, they'd pick from-home overwhelmingly. Though we are in an area with horrible traffic, so that commute isn't so much a time to reset as it is a second part-time job that costs you money and contributes to climate change. Just cutting down on that greatly improves our work-life balance.

    Raven Luna
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I don't miss any of this either. I get more done at home. I'm happy I don't have to drive to the office in snow. I have less anxiety. I love it.

    J_A_B _
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Everybody complaining about needing a commute to reset should know they can drive to the local coffee shop or a park to reset. Your commute to or from the office down the hall can be 2 hours if you want it to be.

    Mikey Kliss
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Wow. This one seems like a plant. "Time to reset during the commute" screw off....

    BWC
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Agreed. My morning commute is fine but driving home through the traffic is more of a stressful chore than an opportunity for a reset. Usually I'm ready to crash for a nap as soon as I walk in the front door

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    MyOpinionHasBeenServed
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Not associating your couch as your work space.

    Clara Straka
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    The best of All 🤣🤣

    TF 88
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Gross. I never want to see humans again.

    Adam Pilelis
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    The commute is sooo important. I recently moved and only work 10 minutes away. I literally leave a half hour early just so that I get my morning commute. Coffee, radio, Sun hitting my face, all a great way to start the day. I imagine shuffling out of the bathroom six feet down the hallway to work would be terrible.

    Tanya Stevens
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    This should of added a reason to wear clothes again.

    JaimeeJames WD
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Said four people ever.

    Angela W
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Nope.

    Mikeey Kimber aka 85
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Boy offices must really suck.

    Nicole A
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    FREE coffee AND snacks!? We never even got crappy 'this pot has never been washed' coffee for free.

    Kimberley Broyles
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited)

    When he started working at home March 2020, my husband started taking our dog for a ride in the car everyday after work to get out of the house and decompress. He got a different job that is 100% work from home and it's so cute to see the dog start bugging him for their ride toward the end of his work day. 😍🥰

    michelle hooper
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Oh I love ths one to

    Maureen Laneski
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    4 years ago

    I don't listen to NPR much since leaving my office job.

    BWC
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Every building that I have worked in had terrible radio reception so I stream stations via their websites.

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    Tanya Stevens
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    4 years ago

    Maybe looking forward to weekends if I had to choose lol

    idraax poission
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I need a physical transition between my home space and my work space, so I do miss the commute a bit.

    Tami
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Free TP all day.

    Orlando Pitcher
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Awkward situations with that coworker I like...

    Pat Bond
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Yes, I miss most of hese things too, bizarrely it's the time to reset during the commute I miss most.

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    #18

    Annoying Things About Wfh

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    Martha Meyer
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    4 years ago

    I have a dedicated spot I work from and I don't use it for anything else. Don't work from your couch or dining table, people.

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    Workweek

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    Becky Siry
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    4 years ago

    This

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    Hybrid Work

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    Clara Straka
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    #21

    Work Life Balance

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    Kitty the cat
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Me:

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    #22

    2 More Weeks

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    Kitty the cat
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    More like two more days

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    #23

    Remote Worker

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    Judah Phelps
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Haha! Clever!

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    #24

    Working

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    Kitty the cat
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Yep

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    #25

    Daydreaming

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    Ryan Deschanel
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    4 years ago

    I don't understand the first picture.

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    #26

    Business Jargon

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    Ann Dennis
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    4 years ago

    LOL synergy :)

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    #27

    The Future Of Work

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    Andriette Keyser Bergakker
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I compare WFH to life in a aquarium.

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    #28

    Zoom Fatigue

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    Fin Bin
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Yep.

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    #29

    Working From Home

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    Deni Castro
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Still waiting for the after...

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    #30

    Working And Relaxing

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    Allahi
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    The moral of the story, first 20 years are going to school, the next 30 years are working and then RIP.

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