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This is an interesting read, if a bit light. Unfortunately, its quality is diminished by the ridiculous stock photos that have nothing to do with the text.

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So I am not the only one who noticed that all the books were facing backwards or their cover not visible in the stock photo (probably for the same reason they don't show brand of the phones being used in movies, unless it is a deliberate product placement).

Sadly the BBC (which as an institution I will defend) feel the need to put pictures on everything, whether salient or not. I'm sure there's research that says that readers like their news articles to have pictures, but they don't always add anything.

Yesterday, though, the pictures editor made a masterful choice.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54088206

I have bookmarked a javascript snippet which a friend wrote to enable better text reading experience on such websites. It just hides all images in the page.

This is an interesting comment, if a bit light. Unfortunately, its quality is diminished by the ridiculous tangent that has nothing to do with the text.

The stock photos were people working remotely and looking relaxed. Which, I think, is part of the point of the article; stuff "leaders" would normally do in meetings are kind of lost on somebody who is in their study feeling secure.

I definitely do not get up, shower, do my hair, put on a collared shirt, and then go back into my room and sit at my desk. The stock photos in this were jarringly non-candid for what remote work actually looks like.

I used to be that way, but now I do the full routine as if I were going into the office. I like it and I feel better about myself and more focused. I also am now very strict about having an actual home office which I go in from 9 to 12 with only my work computer, check out for lunch for an hour, then back in the office for the last half of the day with one break in the middle. This has made me really productive and let go of feeling like I need to be online all the time, working until 11pm, which I used to do because I always felt distracted and that I wasn't fully focused - in my boxers, watching Youtube and taking lots of breaks.

Anyhow, these photos are clearly not of people at work. They are posing for the photo, and the work "material" they have does not make sense.

Sorry yes, I agree there.

There's definitively a bigger expectation that women should dress up while at the office. Personally, I'll still wake up early, do my hairs and a put on a light makeup just for the 30 minutes long morning meeting. Sure, I'm wearing pajamas pants but you wouldn't know it.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-you-wear-m...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01674...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299431552_The_Impac...

Getting shower and dressed "for work" is most common advice given to people getting used to working from home along with keeping a regular work scheduled and having space dedicated to work.

Just because you or I may not get dressed up ... my wife certainly does.

And typos:

> actually dothe work of gettingprojects done

Are you entirely sure they have "nothing" to do with the content.

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