Pretend to Be Mister Rogers, and Other Ways to Separate Your Work and Life at Home

An “always on” existence can be extremely draining

Alexandra Samuel
Forge
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4 min readMay 18, 2021

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When you work where you live, the effort to separate work life from personal life can feel like a bit of a performance: You’re hiding your PJs under a professional blazer, or throwing a green screen in front of your household mess. That’s why…

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Alexandra Samuel
Forge
Writer for

Speaker on hybrid & remote work. Author, Remote Inc. Contributor to Wall Street Journal & Harvard Business Review. https://AlexandraSamuel.com/newsletter