This morning, I woke up feeling extremely under the weather — a terrible headache with leg weakness. I don’t feel like getting up, I just want to stay in my bed.
Commuting back to work takes over an hour in extremely crowded public transport, so under normal circumstances, I will take sick leave. It has always been a no-brainer, except for days that I have very important meetings that required me to show up, then I would have to try my best to struggle back to the office. (I know this sounds unhealthy, but that’s how things work here in my culture — Hong Kong.)
But now we are working from home.
There is no need to commute.
My job only requires my eyes to read stuff on my computer, my brain to think of a response and my fingers to type it out on my keyboard. Walking is no longer necessary for “going to work”. Sure, my brain is functioning less efficiently right now, but it is still working…
Maybe I should just keep working?
But this headache is really killing me! I just wanna lie on the bed. Maybe I should just take sick leave.
