Remote Work Gave You Freedom - Then Stole Your Off Switch

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Remote work sold you freedom - then stole your off switch. No rush hour, but now it’s Slack at midnight and Zoom on Saturday. Flexibility without boundaries is just burnout in disguise. Draw the line, or lose the plot. Working remote is amazing, if it's done right.

No rush hour. No commute. Just you and the calendar that never ends.

Remote work gave us freedom - then blurred every line that kept work in its place.

Now it’s Slack at midnight. A “quick call” on Sunday. And somehow, the kitchen table became a conference room.

You’re not lazy. You’re leaking.

Without hard boundaries, remote work will bleed into every corner of your life - until it owns it.

This isn’t about hustle or balance. It’s about design.

Guardrails. Rituals. Start times. Stop times.

Because high output doesn’t come from burnout - it comes from rested intensity.

Draw the line. Hold the line. Protect the thing that makes the work possible: you.

What boundaries do you enforce to keep your time yours?