Lazy girl jobs, trending on TikTok, grant employees flexibility and work-life balance - but they aren’t a free pass to slack off, says university student Audrey Wan.
By 4pm, you’ve completed your work and leave your cushy cubicle, ready to do it all over again tomorrow.
But these carefully composed scenes may not fully portray the reality of working lazy girl jobs. In fact, I don’t think they are lazy at all.Having greater flexibility over one’s time does not mean the employee has. My very first job as a marketing and outreach intern for a start-up was a classic lazy girl job, but it stands out in my memory as one that required significant discipline.
I sometimes struggled to independently keep track of these tasks, which spanned various software programmes and belonged to different projects. I also obsessed over checking the company’s Instagram direct messages, afraid of missing an urgent text from a business collaborator. I have several friends in admin support or customer service, who perform repetitive work like data entry and fielding calls.
My friend who works as a customer service representative says the automation of her company’s help desk has significantly cut down her interactions with customers via calls. While this speeds up her work, she often goes entire days without hearing another human voice. This makes her endless loop of tasks feel even more suffocating, she said.
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