One way to cut down on work-from-home fatigue is to set up a designated work area in your living place. Having a specific area set up allows you to more easily separate and disengage from work and that can go a long way to making it more bearable.

Also helps to settle into a routine and keep an eye on the time. It gets a lot easier with time I've been remote since pre-pandemic.

I have that. It's also where my personal computer is - don't really have any other space.

Sorry to hear that. My work allows me to work from home 3 days a week, only going in to the office twice, and it definitely helps my sense of time and cabin fever. Which works for me pretty well, considering it's over 50 miles round trip and gas prices are back over 5$ here.

We're starting to be allowed to work at the office, although I tried that and I'm being totally serious... I caught Covid on the train to work!
The universe hates me. :)

Ooof! Sorry to hear that. I work with a small company, so I was allowed back to the office as early as June 2020, but I was usually the only one in the office, maybe one other person, and we could each have our own offices while there. I live too far away for public transportation, so it's just me driving to and from work.
I hope you didn't get too sick from catching covid!

Yeah, that's the same - office is totally empty when I'm there. Still just taking the train is a change of scene, assuming one survives it...

I'm pretty virus resistant, so ten days of mild headaches and sore throat. Almost more like a flu.

i read that the trick to separating work from life during a "work from home" setting, is to:
* dress for work.
* use different room if using laptop.
* write a schedule.

Unfortunately, I actually dress the same at work as I do at home. :)

I got laid-off in July 2018, then re-hired in October 2019, then we went entirely work from home in March of 2020 due to COVID, then I got a different remote work-from-home job July of this year (bioinformatics stuff, finally :). It's a good thing I'm an introvert, or I'd have gone insane by now. Even so, I end up doing the same thing; go for a drive when it gets bad, go do things in-person if I can, I try to go to the comic store every Wednesday even though it's all the way across town.

Customizing my workspace also helped a lot. I built my own desk with Ikea countertops, splurged on a 49" curved monitor and a Cloud9 ergonomic keyboard, a comfortable chair, etc. And even then, I 'optimize' by moving stuff around or otherwise tweaking my workspace every few months, which helps keep me from going stir-crazy.

Heh... I should do the comic store thing. I have a standing invite from my friend to come work for him when I retire - thank gods.. :)

Man, I wish I could land a job doing bioinformatics... it's technically what I studied in uni (well... *mumblemumble* years ago). Alas, I'm doing software archeology on some genuinely insane code which does NOT help. :)

Earlier this year, I had I think 8 different places contact me about ostensibly bioinformatics-related positions. A few didn't want me because I was 'too interested in bioinformatics', they basically wanted a code janitor. I ended up going with a job at the Veterans Administration, where I'm working with researchers using data from the Million Veteran Program and others. Bit of a pay cut (mostly from the lack of that juicy 15% annual bonus at Dell), but way more interesting. Right now it's very DevOps-y, which bores me to tears, but I'll be working with researchers more directly soon. And I love that most of our meetings are people discussing their research.

VERY envious but glad you scored the position!

J'espère que tu trouveras rapidement le chien de tes rêves.

Hélas, mon appartement n'accepte pas les chiens de plus de dix kilos... et je préfère un vrai chien. :) Si tu vois ce que je veux dire... :)

Encore un règlement idiot, un chien est un chien !

Bien sûr, mais je veux un chien avec qui je peux me blottir!

Un chien qu'il fasse 5 kg ou 50 c'est un chien, le règlement est idiot car il fait une différence entre les deux. Après c'est sur qu'un Chihuahua, c'est pas le même chose qu'un St Bernard

Vraiment! :)

You sound like you need some company. Will a big moose do?

Might need to make adjustments to the doorframe, but sure. :)