“The process of getting an accurate migraine diagnosis was one of the most confusing, fearful, and difficult periods of my life,” Natalie Sayre tells SELF. Sayre, 28, lived with chronic migraine for years before getting a diagnosis.
After the onset of her first migraine when she was 19, Sayre’s migraine attacks worsened, but she had a pretty limited understanding of the scope and intensity of the condition. At the time, she focused on what she describes as Band-Aid-type solutions, like taking over-the-counter and prescription migraine medications whenever a migraine attack struck in hopes of lessening or shortening the episode.
“It wasn’t until I’d pushed myself to the brink of daily, debilitating pain and was forced into medical leave from my first full-time position that I took migraine disease seriously,” she says.
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More flexible and fully remote work hours
Let s address the obvious and biggest change first: the white-collar workforce isn t going back to required physical presence in an office any time soon. Employees have mastered new tools to help them work remotely and employers have piloted the concept, whether they originally wanted to or not.
Interestingly, companies were already trending towards digital work before the pandemic, with all the tech and security upgrades that such a shift entails.
“It s worth noting that 70% of companies have been working on digital transformation before the pandemic hit,” Candace Helton, operations director at Ringspo, tells me. But the pandemic tipped their hands, and the resulting change in work cultures around the globe will push even more businesses to accept remote options as the new normal.