Working from home

[Summerrain14]

I appreciate how fortunate I am to be able to work from home currently. Never did I realise how hard it would be especially trying to track down the new ways we are all working so that I can access support for the people I am in touch with. Not having the three hour daily commute Is a massive bonus but not having contact with my work colleagues face to face is a little tough. Mentally I am more exhausted too as learning new databases, following new systems that change daily and having some really difficult conversations with people over the phone rather than face to face. That’s day 10 achieved though. Onwards and upwards as they say. 😊

[charisma]

My eldest son is finding online teaching Maths is very draining. Guess most are doing a great job of adapting though.

[Lolabridge]

What a delight to have such a lovely fluffy companion when working from home.

[Stowe]

I know what you mean, well done on getting through day 10, I also wfh and it is good, but understandably alot of frustrations, from the systems being very slow to not being with work colleagues to trying yo work bew IT systems. Sigh. But I do recognise how lucky I am that I can wfh. Keep safe everyone x

[Lyndy]

I am lucky to have worked from home for many years... have to smile at the antics of folk a little less used to working in their kitchen!

[HappykindaGal]

I’ve worked from home for over ten years now. It’s getting in to a routine that can be tough. Not working in PJs etc... A colleague goes to work every day. He walks out the back door and into the front and he then feels he’s at work.

One of the dangers of working from home is that the working day elongates. There’s a great system called Pomodoro technique which deliberately chunks up the day into segments such as 20 minutes. 2 twenty minute segments and a 5 minute break. 3 segments and 10 minutes. It involves using a kitchen timer so it’s very disciplined. I’m particularly using this technique now otherwise I’d either do nothing and watch tv all day, or work 15 hours non stop.

Perhaps consider using groups to keep in touch with colleagues. All my team are remote and we have a Zoom call daily, plus we use Skype groups, Slack and sometimes Google hangouts to keep communication going.