Alexia Kambon

The first is, man, it sucks that we're now doing work at 8pm.

Like, that's terrible.

And for those listening, the triple peak literally means...

We have three big peaks, big bursts of activity in the day.

The first is right before lunch.

The second is right after.

And then the third now is sort of around dinner time or just after dinner, around sort of 8 p.m.

And there's a group of people that I've spoken to who are saying this is terrible.

We're working in the evenings when we should be having downtime.

And then there's a group of people I've spoken to who are telling me, well, you know, between the hours of

four and five I now go and pick up my kids uh and spend time with them or go for a bike ride or you know I just leave the office a little early to be able to do other stuff and I compensate for that by you know having an hour's work in the evening where it's quiet and my kids have gone to bed and I can really do proper focus work and for them that's a great thing right so it's how how would you interpret that I think is very much down to your own personal work style

Do you have an off switch, Kari?

Is it easy for you to flick off work in your brain?

Yeah.

And I think, um,

I mean, what's so interesting about that is the brain probably needs signals to stop and end work.

And when you are a remote worker, those signals aren't there, or at least not as much, right?

You don't have the physical commute, which is like a nice mental transition, as well as a literal transition from home to work.

um you know you don't um put on the uniform like you know your nice corporate suit or whatever it is um and I think those those signals like the first thing you do when the first thing my dad used to do when he came home from work was take off his tie right like that was the first like again like the signal to the brain ah work's over my tie's off and yeah I think those boundaries sort of disappear in

In the remote world, and I can certainly attest to that because I worked for two years remotely from the UK with a West Coast based team.