This is Work

A glimpse of human work in the post-pandemic era

Jason Zhang
4 min readAug 23, 2021

Morning, wake up, wash my face, eat breakfast, put on my hoodie, take on the coat, carry my computer bag, and say goodbye to my family. Go out of my bedroom, walk through the corridor, open the sliding door, enter the study room, take off the coat, sit at the desk, take out my MacBook Pro, put on the headphones, and start working.

You read that right. I have worked like this since the lockdown of the Covid-19. Compare to the 1.5-hour commute before the pandemic, it now only takes 15 seconds — from the bedroom to the study room.

I am a software engineer. Before the lockdown, I was working for an IT Service Company. Every day I took at least 1.5 hours from my home in the suburbs to the office. However, most of my daily work is done by sitting at my cubicle — coding. Excluding occasional meetings and checking servers in the machine room.

Later, the pandemic began, and we changed to remote working. We use GitHub, the largest and most advanced development platform, to build, ship, and maintain our software. Daily communication between colleagues is done with Slack, a proprietary business communication…

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