We bought ergonomic office chairs, cleaned them out, ordered cashmere jogging pants for the price of a month’s rent, which is intended to hide the fact that we’ve been working in jogging pants since the beginning of 2020. We bought headsets and special mice against tendonitis. Why has working from home never become the word of the year since the pandemic began? Maybe because it’s more of a nonsense? No, there is nothing to be found there either.
It may not show up anywhere because not everyone can move their jobs home. Anything that really matters, to be precise. But maybe we just haven’t figured out where you could optimize your own workplace, where you could turn the office into a home.
Hunters for example. They don’t immediately come to mind as a professional group in the home office, but that’s wrong! Because when the hunter is not roaming around in the forest, the hunter also has an office, so to speak: the high seat. And what speaks against making it more comfortable. Nothing, thought Daniel Hechtl from the Upper Palatinate. The carpenter and hunter from the district of Tirschenreuth builds hides that really look good. Bavarian radio reports that it is made of high-quality wood, perfectly insulated, with a shelf if required. A hunter doesn’t even want to go home when it’s below zero.
In addition to the “real” work, there is the other one. The harder ones, for which there is no money: children, housework, looking after the parents and so on. You could extend the high seat idea to this “office” area. Unlike in the first lockdown, for example, the sandboxes are open. And since gymnastics groups are being sent from one quarantine to the next, parents have no choice but to spend what little free time they have on park benches. What speaks against equipping them with heated seats? And holders for caffeinated drinks? And holders to tie the children’s leashes, uh, dog leashes? Exactly: nothing. In general, it is always worth taking a look at the Upper Palatinate in order to get through this tedious and tedious time: After all, it was someone from the Upper Palatinate who invented “Mensch ärgere dich nicht”.