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I had similar symptoms.

In my case it was just a vitimin D deficiency caused by working from home.

I don't doubt some people have suffered neurological damage, but I wouldn't be surprised if many are suffering the same as I was.

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Are you working in the cellar at home? Why would you have less vitamin D working from home than say, an office?

Unless you're teleporting or living there, getting from home to the office normally involves at least some exposure to sunlight.

Working from home doesn't mean you are forced or even have any incentive to stay at home all day long.

OK but the OP didn't say all people get vitamin D deficiency from working at home, they were only describing their own experience.

When did I say I was forced?

Are you actually responding to what I said, or are you just preemptively attacking what you (incorrectly) assume is an anti wfh statement?

I am just disputing the causality of that deficiency of vitamin D. WFH has nothing to do with the fact one doesn't spend some time outside every day.

Even just 15 mins in the sun helps vitamin D levels so walking from the house to the car into the office and back again is enough to make a difference compared to not going out at all, no?

You mean some people only go out to work?

If true, OK, I was wrong about WFH/hybrid being superior to RTO, I guess different people mean different habits.

I live in the UK, it was only a few weeks ago it stopped being dark when I finish work. Climate is a bitch.

That is offtopic no? people driving/walking/cycling to work face the same climate and hours with sunlight.

One of the nice things that usually comes from WFH is a bit more flexibility in work time schedule. I usually go for a walk at least once during the day, usually to get groceries, and every other week I have to pickup my smallest daughter in primary school. And when the weather is nice and the days short in winter I would often do a 2 to 3h pause during the day to go for a cycling ride.

People who only go outside during daylight hours to go to the office are a bit of a symptom of a problem, not really a solution.

I am working from home and the first thing I want to do when I stop working is going outside. I also, and as do many of my coworker, go for a walk at least once a day.

WFH doesn't mean you are chained to your desk from 8am to 5pm

Depends upon what latitude you live at.

Where I am, the sun isn't strong enough to trigger synthesis from October until the end of April.

After that you need a lot of skin exposed to get anything, which is difficult 'cos it ain't that warm.

There is a reason red hair appeared in Southern Scotland/Northern Ireland.

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