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Bengaluru Techie’s Viral Reddit Post Exposes WFH Mental Health Toll

It highlights how unreliable electricity, overcrowded coworking spaces, isolation have compounded burnout among Bangalore’s remote tech workers

Redditor’s social media post goes viral.
A Reddit post detailed a Bengaluru techie’s WFH burnout.
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Overview

  • The Reddit post “WFH in Bangalore: WiFi stable, but my mental health isn’t” by @Adventurous_Cod_432 has attracted over 147,000 views in four days.
  • The author recounted persistent power cuts, disruptive noise from neighbors and relentless Zoom meetings that have eroded his well-being.
  • He contrasted the dream of café coding with the reality of working in bed and using his laptop as a hot water bag during outages.
  • His ₹9,000 co-working space fee failed to offer respite, leaving him eavesdropping on entrepreneurs pitching to venture capitalists.
  • The post has spurred an outpouring of similar accounts from Bangalore’s tech community, underlining widespread infrastructure gaps and remote-work burnout.