Remote Worker’s Video About What Time She Wakes Up Goes Viral And Sparks Debate

Before we begin, let’s start with this is a joke so we don’t get poor Sarah (@virgomatcha_ on TikTok) fired.

She recently took to TikTok to make a short video about herself “waking up” for work, captioning it “remote workers getting out of bed at 12pm to start work at 9am.”

She also wrote “Living the dream” on the clip and added some hashtags about working from home, millennials, Gen Z, and being a corporate worker.

With over 812,000 views, it’s safe to say that people who have watched the video feel it really resonates with them.

“I wake up 10 minutes before my first meeting lmao,” wrote one project manager without a time sheet.

“I wake up at 9 am and respond to messages while brushing my teeth,” another joked.

“Check if I have any meetings at 8:54 am. No? proceed to snooze in 1 hr intervals,” a third commented.

LinkedIn itself wrote, “It’s 9am somewhere.”

Sarah explained in the comments that her job is influencer marketing and her supervisor doesn’t micromanage her mornings; the boss only expects that the work gets done, as a good boss should!

In June, TikToker @kev.well (Kevin) made a similar joke about waking up a minute before clocking into work.

Forbes recently cited a study about how workers who get to work from home are not honest about how much time they spend working. A remote worker, on average, will spend nine hours a week on the clock and doing non-work tasks — though none of those tasks were sleeping.

Of course, the return to the office has met with a lot of pushback and with good reason — there’s a lot of lost time “on the clock” in an office setting too.

I think Sarah’s boss has it right: as long as the work gets done, who cares about how long it takes?