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Originally Posted by Cherie

You do have to be disciplined unless you are TS who appears to do nothing



I think people thought I was lounging around watching This Morning, and when you tell people you work from home they seem to think they can ring you whenever, no...I'm working and no the fairys don't come in and do the work

Working from home is a SKILL, Cherie! I get as much done at home as I do in the office but you work differently at home. You have to, IMO. You can work at a steady pace in an office environment, chatting to coworkers etc. and the time passes quite quickly... If you try to do that at home you'll go mad in a week.

SO... take a deep breath, focus like a jedi, and absolutely hammer out an hour+ worth of work in 15 to 20 minutes and then watch telly for 40 . That's my top tip.

I've had to give these tips to coworkers (and other friends) currently working from home who normally are 100% office based because they were all becoming utterly miserable.

... I may have downplayed the "time balance" for my own coworkers of course. I said take a 20 min break every hour. Not 20 mins of work every hour