WFH Starts April 15 — And Your Phone Is the Enemy. Meet Forest.
Put down your phone, grow your focus . By now, you have probably heard the news. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced on April 1 that all federal ministries, government agencies, statutory bodies, and GLCs would begin working from home starting April 15, as a measure to reduce fuel consumption and ensure sustainable energy use amid the global energy crisis . Civil servants living more than 8km from their office will work from home three days a week, and are required to log into an online monitoring system every hour using geolocation functions on their devices . For many Malaysians, it is welcome news. No traffic. No parking fees. No squeezing into the LRT. T eh tarik from your own kitchen. But once the novelty wears off, usually sometime around Day Two, a quieter problem surfaces. You are sitting at your home desk, a task open in front of you, and somehow forty-five minutes have disappeared into Instagram Reels, a WhatsApp conversation that started as one message, an...
