That is one of the sort of “invasive” things that comes with work from home. You are sort of never off work. Even on vacation. I planned my day to ensure I could work with HQ, and with any customers in various time zones. So an average day was 6am to 9am. Take a break for an hour or so. Work through til dinner. Break. Finish off anything else with HQ who was 3 hours behind me going on 9pm. They often left around 6pm their time. It was crazy. I was home, but working 12+ hours a day. Yes I did laundry, put on the crock pot, and fed cats, but I also had to be ultra responsive, get everything done, and be in all my meetings.
Even vacation was like that. They gave me a Blackberry so they could get me any time of day and anywhere in the country. So, I went to an off the grid cabin up in the mountains and they could only get me for about 2 hours a day when I went into town! Heh. Yes, I allowed it even though it was my vacation. It was kind of the price for the freedom I had.
Nah I’m not about that life. If it’s 5 o’clock and nothing is planned in the evening, it waits for the next business day. The only thing done after hours is the occasional release.
Ok, then the flu, common, cold and literally almost anything else is a big deal too and we need to shut down society for everything that kills somebody.
Most companies do supply living rooms for their workers if they come from outside of town. To be hired by a big company has nothing to do with your home location but all about your experience, wage demands and skill.
The gaming industry is in a crisis since years, mobile gaming is booming, so does streaming and social media. You need to find a balance if you design a product for the PC market and despite all the young guns wanting to make a million first year, they have to cut back on their expectations and learn to work from buttom to top.
This expectation of young people that a degree in something automatically means big $$$ is so stupid. Everyone can get a degree these days, many even without actual skill as you can pretty much buy yourself one.
Internet, ghost writers… the days when people sat in libarys for months to study are long gone in most professions and i do have more respect of people that learn things by themselves than those with big $$$ and a questionable degree.
The rich worked form home and on vacation for decades as they never spend time in the office as they have people working for them. They cant stand the idea that people is at home than having a manager breath down their back every second as they see fear as the only motivation for productivity.
No companies give their employees living quarters (outside of gimmicks at places like Google like Nap Pods or Elon Musk getting in trouble for providing cots for his employees because it crosses zoning lines) or pay for housing for them specifically that I’ve ever heard of, and I have known people who worked in the games industry.