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Hopeless isn’t it. I get too distracted. Like writing this for example.

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  1. Done it on & off for 13 years. Just have to be disciplined Twang. Strict timetable – see the wife off to work, make coffee, turn on mac, avoid sites like this. Snowed in today so being forced into another home-shift, so I won’t be visiting any sites like this. Er….

  4. This is the equivalent of walking around the office and indulging in polite banter – rather than having to take an interest in someone’s coming weekend I am typing this

  5. I get more done in concentrated spurts(oo-err) so can build more down time in to the day.

    I have a Doctor appointment today, so am WFH. Despite being out for 2 hours minimum I bet still get as much done.

    At least one company over here (Best Buy, I think) has been experimenting with a “don’t care where, don’t care when, just as long as it gets done” approach to work

  6. There’s definitely the potential for more guilt when at home but often misplaced. If you count up the amount of time that you spend being ‘in the office’ catching up on office politics, last nights football etc and not forgetting the wasted hours commuting then unless you really are swinging the lead at home I think its good value for your employer. I love it but would hate to do it every day – Id miss the banter.

  7. I reckon I’m 100% more efficient working from home, away from office distractions, so consequently I work half as long. I’ll often wake up at 6.30 when my wife gets up for work, get my laptop and a cup of coffee, and go back to bed. By 10.30 I’ve done as much as I would in a day in the office, so I go out for a run, shopping, haircut, doctor’s appointment or whatever. My phone is my office, where I am is irrelevant. It’s a very civilised way of working.

  8. Me too. I get more done at home than most days in the office, and I often work longer hours here as well.

    Numpties who don’t manage their inboxes, never answer emails, and forget to dial in to telephone conferences are the same numpties whether I’m sitting in my home office or have driven 75 miles to sit under strip lights in a crap chair. If I speak to someone on the blower it matters not where I am located either. A few days on site each week is usually enough to ensure that all the face-to-face stuff can be taken care of.

    Not all clients appreciate this, and there are still enough of the “We’re paying you more than I get, so you can bloody well turn up here each day” brigade around to spoil things, even if it’s really counterproductive all round. You can’t easily mitigate for spite and stupidity, and middle management is full of those commodities.

  9. I find it pretty easy to become distracted whilst working from work….

    Today’s conundra …

    How come Michael Kiwanuka hasn’t happened ?

    Why has no-one got the mythical Starjets 2nd album ?

    When are the Cool Ghouls going to get off of their lazy, self-satisfied and quite possibly ample rear ends and come and play in my garden ?

    Who did I lend my copy of Okie to ?

    ( Other musings are available.)

  10. The comment up there about middle management is very true. As Jerry Leadbetter says “what I lack in talent, I make up for in crawling”.

    I know someone who is a tremendous bloke but he will get himself involved in the social lives of execs and hang out with them at weekends – a total, nose up crevice, crawler. Doesn’t worry him at all.

  11. Working from home is OK for your own business – but as an employee, working with others, I would say that being physically present at work regularly is more important than many people realise.

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