Introversion and new work culture.
Most of the IT sector has now been pushed to WFH due to this pandemic. Whether your work is office/remote, now you have to sit in your room, work till, whenever you want, eat food on your table, sleep amidst the work and compensate those rest hours after work, in one word, an unbalanced work-life.
The difference between a completely remote job and an office job turned WFH is. The employers are trying to make the office remote. Unlike most remote jobs with flexible hours, you can start whenever you want and end whenever you wish. But the Office turned remote still has that starting schedule and the ending schedule.
But the schedule is not the hot topic here, Office turned WFH also wants the Office communication to be remote. Like in the Office, everyone should talk to each other and maintain a healthy vocal relationship.
Sitting in your home and doing your job seems like excellent work, from the point of view of an introvert. But the fact that he needs to keep the social communication alive to keep learning and doing and improving his job may haunt him, no matter what. He needs to communicate with his senior to learn the ways the job needs to be done. He needs to communicate with the PM to understand the task. He needs to talk to his colleagues to keep his work relation alive.
But, wait, what, even in the old office work style, he still needs to do all this. But I’m afraid I have to disagree with that statement because, in an office-style work, someone could have kept his work relation alive by just simply offering his mere presence, but doing the same in teams, seems more like “You left me on read.”
The only conclusion I could draw is that you are getting more home time, you are getting more time in your comfort zone, you are getting homely food. Your homesickness needn’t be exposed, and it all comes at a price.
Like all difficult times, this shall pass too. Let us not lose hope and pray to God for brighter days ahead.