Dilemma of working from home

The 8-to-5 has morphed into a flexible dance of deliverables and deadlines. And let’s not forget the savings on fuel, matatu fare, lunch and the occasional impulse buy at Java.

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It started with a cough in Wuhan, China, and ended with a laptop on my dining table. Like many Kenyans in the corporate sector, I was thrust into the world of remote work with the enthusiasm of a cat being bathed.

One day, I was navigating Waiyaki Way traffic like a rally driver, and the next, I was negotiating bandwidth with my teenage daughter who insisted that the online game Fortnite required “priority internet.”

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