Many of us have been working from home over the last 18 months or so while we found a way through this pandemic. We are still in the midst of the pandemic, but it feels like we are closer to being free from it than we are in the middle of it. Over the past couple of months many of us who were office based before the pandemic are returning to the office, even if it is as part of a hybrid way of working, which means we are still working from home some of the time.
I work in a call centre and at my place of work we are using the hybrid model and yesterday was a day when we were all in the office and it felt claustrophobic and as if my senses were on overload. Going from working in a room on my own at home to being surrounded be people talking to customers and with each other felt like too much.
At the end of the day I wanted to relax and switch off, so I watched a film. The film I chose was the Superman film Man Of Steel. In this film it shows the Superman to be as a boy in school dealing with his hyper sensitive senses, seeing his teacher with x-ray vision, hearing talking and sirens in the distance, hearing the whispers of his class mates, etc. It got so much he ran and hid in a store room.
His solution was to focus on his mother’s voice, when she came to help him. He went on to practice and learn to manage and then master what he focused on. To me, even though it was just a film, to me this was a metaphor for how we can get used to being back in the office. It was initially strange to work from home and now it feels strange to be back in the office.
In the end we have an amazing capability to adjust and adapt, the human body is an adapting machine and this new way of working will become normalised. Think of it as an opportunity to develop your ability to adapt and still be effective at your job, and whatever else you put your mind too.
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