Boss cancels employee's work-from-home policy following a bout of illness that took them out of work: ‘I’m on the verge of being fired'

The flexibility of working from home is a knife that cuts both ways, especially if you're not careful and diligent with your time. While working from the comfort of your own home and away from pointless and draining conversations in the office, before you know it, you're taking calls in the early morning and late in the evening and working past your scheduled hours more and more often, blurring the line between your working and personal life. 

To make matters worse, on days when you're sick and would normally be completely unable to go into the office, now you're sitting there considering the fact that you could technically be getting some work done if you really committed to the suffering. And, as with everything, something that has been done once quickly becomes the barest of expectations from your employer now the line blurs even more until there's not really even a line there at all, and as your work eclipses your personal life, you begin to suffer from burnout.

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