Working from Home

[elethiomel]

Does anyone else ever work from home? I'm doing it today and I'm finding it a frustrating process. I alternate between being bored because I'm on my own, feeling guilty that I'm watching Hamish Macbeth when I should be working and frustrated that I've only got half as much work done as I should have.

 

SF is also proving to be a major distraction.

 

I really should get on

[BasilRathbon]

Didn't see The Mitchell & Webb Look last night by any chance?

[elethiomel]

No I didn't. I've decided to give up now actually and go shopping. I'll just have to put aside an hour on Sunday to do the work instead. Feels like I've wasted an entire day

[feargal]

How can it be a day wasted? You're not at work, that's got to count for something.

 

Whenever I work from home, I have to do it in little chunks. An hour, then 15 mins off, then another hour. No telly. No SF. It's the only way to do it

[Ousetunes]

Give me business premises over working at home any day.

 

Here, when I set the alarm (which involves showing a piece of plastic to another wall mounted piece of plastic), lock the door and pull the shutters down (which involves a switch on my key-fob) at 5pm then that's it, work is done for the day and finished and I needn't worry about it till the morning.

 

Contrast that with my in-laws who work(ed) from home and would work late into the night to get jobs done and who would get up early to get jobs done, sometimes in the silly hours of the night. Their phone would ring and in effect, as I often told them, they were never closed. Sadly, my father-in-law passed away aged 62 working to these conditions (admittedly his own choice).

 

Here at work, I don't have to suffer daytime TV (one of the worst inventions of our generation) or any other distractions (my guitar for example or the chance of 'popping out' because it's a nice day). It's a structured day, we open at a certain time and without this structure I'd not be in a hurry to get up to commence work at home.

 

I could never work from home. Home is for relaxing and where you get away from the pressures of work. It's for chilling out with the kids (a possible oxymoron, I know!) and it will stay this way!

[Tricky]

Why do people always choose to 'work from home' on a Friday. Wouldn't it be more honest to say "I can't be arsed so I'll have a long weekend."?

[Beakerzoid]

Didn't see The Mitchell & Webb Look last night by any chance?

 

I was thinking the same Go on, reward yourself...you've earned it

[NEKRO138]

I work at home some days, but I find it ok, I stick a cd on and get on with it.

[andco]

I enjoy working from home. Was discussing the online distractions with a colleague earlier on and one option is to lock yourself out of the major sources. eg you could ask SF on bended knees for what we called an Admin's ban.

 

Another option might be to create a password - 25 characters alphanumeric, upper & lower case type it in to a notepad file, send it to a colleague, delete the email from your servers & from the form fill.

[shlg]

Apparently, research shows that most people do much more work when they work from home. (presumably partly because we think of travelling time as part of our working day - so if you'd normally leave the house at 7.30, that's when you start work at home).