In the spirit of Hannah Betts’ excellent ‘Things you only know if you’re single’ column in The Times I intend to have a series of posts on things you only know if you work from home.
This will accommodate both the people who always work from home and those who usually work in an office. Obviously there is an important difference. Home workers and office workers view things from different angles but it gives me more to talk about and it’s also more interesting to see both sides.
If you would like to nominate an aspect of working from home or if you don’t work from home and would like to sound off on people who do, either email me or leave a comment below. All good ideas I will write about as well as a few of my own thoughts on a weekly basis. Every Tuesday.
I look forward to hearing your views.
That the man next door is an opera singer who practices in the daytime! He always does it at lunchtime which is lovely. Really it is….
Seriously, one of the things that I didn’t realise about working from home is that the day never really ends and it is vital to take some breaks – lunch and again at 5 when I just have to go out, even to just get a newspaper. Fresh air is vital.
I spent four months last year working (ok, not so much) from home. Now pretending to be a corporate whore type.
When I was WFH..
* I knew what time the postman came, and never missed parcels
* I knew the current plot of neighbours (err no comment)
* what tracks are in the top 40 (via radio)
* had to go out every night to just to replace the missing social interraction
Now in corporate office job..
* the tedium of tube commute means I read a novel a week
* I eat wayyyy less toast (health & safety say we can’t be trusted here to toast bread)
* absorb knowledge of football and reality tv programmes subliminaly through office chat (thanks team, not)
* still go out every night because I’m a lush
Overall I’m in favour of working in an office. I’m rather shocked at that actually.
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One of the major benefits of working from home is that the day after you’ve gone out for a ‘a few drinks’ with young Miss Pullin, you can turn all your phones and take a nap and then claim to all those you left you voice mail messages that you were in a meeting all afternoon.
Gilmore Girls is not that annoying if you actually start following the storylines