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Looking Back at 2020: The Year We Worked in Our Pyjamas

In a pre covid world, a typical day in our life consisted of waking up in the morning, grabbing breakfast, getting ready for the office, get groceries in the evening, or hang out with your friends over dinner, and get back home. Getting ready was a challenging part of our daily lives. Choose clothes, shoes, matching accessories - this alone took almost an hour every day!  However, in the new normal era, we are working from home in our comfortable home clothes while Looking Back at 2020: The Year We Worked in Our Pyjamas

But in the last 8 months, our life changed drastically. We no longer get up in the morning to rush to the office. We don't have to lose our sleep over what to wear the next day. Work from home took over our lives.

Initially, almost everyone had a hard time adjusting to the concept. After all, we love the outside world a little too much to spend all our time indoors. 

3 months into the lockdown we got accustomed to tapping away on the laptop in our pyjamas on our bed. It sounds like a dream, right? Getting to reply to emails, attending work calls in your home attire. Throughout this lockdown period, we remained loyal to our pyjamas.

Can Working in Your Pyjamas Lower your Productivity?

There have been several types of research that state working in your home wearing pyjamas can lower your productivity. You won't be able to cope with the challenges that work throw at you. Especially, when you have to log in every day from your home for an indefinite period of time it can make you sluggish. 

Maybe this was the reason behind people taking up work from home outfit challenges. Some people too up their dressing game a level up for a visit to the departmental store. 

For people who are not accustomed to working from home, it takes a lot to help them stay focused. For this, they believe changing to work clothes before work actually lifts up their spirits and make them productive.

However, studies revealed working from home in your shorts or pyjamas doesn't hurt your productivity. Many people love the comforts that work from home provides. New work emergencies require you to throw a shirt over your shorts to look presentable or running for a good Wifi connection to meet deadlines.

Work From Home Outfit Ideas

Some days you might feel sluggish and want to take naps between work or get distracted by the pile of unread books on your shelf. For these days, make an effort to dress up. However, dressing up does not mean you have to get into your fitted trousers or denim, try styling your home outfits for a change.

Whether you are in team pyjamas, or 'let's get changed before work', here are a few fun works from home outfit ideas.

Checked Pyjamas with Solid Coloured Tees

Think of solid coloured tees with checkered pyjamas. You don’t have to get out of your comfy pyjamas, but have your work look ready at the same time. You can just throw over a semi-formal blazer, and you will be ready for the zoom meeting. Don’t forget to upload an OTD post on your Instagram page.

Wide-Legged Trousers

You can choose wide-legged trouser, or flared pants, or flared denim and pair them with a crop top. This outfit is not just super comfortable, but also very stylish.

Shrug Over Your Home Outfit

Not in a mood to change? No problem. You can put a casual shrug over your trouser and tee. The colour and pattern of the shrug can change your look. It will also add a layer to your look.

Wide Belt Over Your Lose Tee

This is perfect to get over your Monday blues. You are not ready to get back to work, but a man’s gotta do what he’s gotta do. So you just wear a statement wide belt over your extra loose tee.

Tee Shirt Dress

For the days when you want to connect with your colleagues over video meetings and you are in the mood to unwind, you can wear your tee shirt dress to bring the fun. They are good on their own, you can just add a belt or a shrug to complete the look.

The best thing about these outfits is they are not just super comfortable, but you will get ready in less than 1 minute. So, if you’re someone who feels working in home outfits is not just boring, but is also an obstacle to productivity, then follow our tips to get ready for work from the home hustle while Looking Back at 2020: The Year We Worked in Our Pyjamas

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