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Working from home

Pondered by Nat 2 years ago, at the end of October

It’s been a while, but the gap between leaving one office and moving into a new one has provided the perfect opportunity for a week of working from home.

I forget the side effects:

  • Forgetting to STOP working!
  • Starting the day answering email from the comfort of bed - you can scam at least an extra hour of lying down by starting the day this way ;)
  • The quiet! Being alone at home, there are no distractions (apart from my fascination with my new worm farm and herb garden)
  • The fun of working with others at home - a friend of mine and myself got together for half a day yesterday for some joint working time
  • The flexibility - call is weird, but I find it much easier to consider running int he middle of the day when I dont have to leave an office to do it. You feel so much more freedom working form home!

Add to it that this week is a freakishly sunny one, and I must say I feel like I’m having a mini-holiday!


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3 Responses to “Working from home”

  1. Colin Says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 4:25 am

    Its really interesting to try and weight the pro’s & cons of working from home - I work from home permantly. It is nice to work in shorts and jandels etc (Gold Coast) but I have also found that you cannot fully appreciate the value of interaction with team mates at work until you don’t have it. Note however, despite this, I am in now hurry to race back to working in the office all the time either…

  2. Nat Says:
    October 27th, 2007 at 4:11 am

    Hey Colin,

    I’m terribly jealous - I LOVE the Gold Coast!!!!!!! Yeah I think there is a compromise - I thought I was done with the home office thing after being full time at home for over a year, but after another year or so back in the office, I realise there is some kind of balance …

    Enjoy the heat in your area, and send some our way if you have too much ;)

  3. Colin Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 9:03 am

    Hey Nat - starting to warm up a bit now that summer is on the way. Problem is that I used to get so fired up at home when daylight savings came around as it indicated summer was on the way - now I have a slight foreboding with summer on the way. I really feel for the kids at school with little or no airconditioning. Imagine 30 kids in a classroom, all with stinky feet and cheese & onion sandwiches and it is 400 degree’s outside. Good be worse though - Helen could decide to move here…

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