October 17th, 2006 in Lifehack, Management

Working from Home Discussion

There is a lengthy discussion on working from home at Joel on Software forum. It looks like to me that many people has issues on working from home. They mention couple of problems:

Lack of motivation
Lack of human interactions
Lack of concentration
Lack of separation between work and personal life
Odd work hours

With those possible issues for working from home, do you want to avoid this option? No, because there are ways to help. For instance, Roby suggests:

- fixed schedule for my days: start job at 9, eat at 13, go out for an hour to take a coffee and talk with friends, start job at 14, stop at 18 for an hour of sport, then eat, relax, start working again at 21 until 2 am.
- even if I stay at home I wear just like when I go out consulting (well, casual dress…)
- don’t have food like cakes or similar at home.. I keep a bottle of water near me so if I feel I need something I drink some water
- eat regularly and at regularly hours, don’t take food near the pc…
- fixed hours for internet.. I have a list of links and I visit only those sites.. so no waste of time googling here and there 20 minutes in the morning for “work” links, 20 minutes in the afternoon for other non-working interests.
- dont watch tv … NEVER.. (well, I’m lucky I hate tv TV is a EVIL, you can burn entire afternoons thinking it’s only ten minutes you have started watching it!! Radio and/or music not only is ok, but it’s a MUST! Cannot work without..