WFH: How you work or how you live?

What’s important to WFH: better home equipment and processes? Or a home better tailored to the WFH lifestyle? Two articles address each.

It’s a variation of ‘do you live to work’ or 'do you work to live’ question. And it came to mind in reading two articles on working from home.

The first one, a piece in Forbes entitled My Favorite Work From Home Tools, takes a more global picture of working from home. Not a lot of the items mentioned directly impact working from home—a generator, a massager, a blender, an ice barrel, a bed, some cool headphones, etc. It’s more about the lifestyle. And the thought being if you enjoy your space more, it improves your work experience.

I know I would work much better if I had a sweat tent in my backyard.

The next piece, 5 work from home gifts for remote workers in 2023 in TechCrunch, talks about the things that you might actually use while working at home:

• Wireless noise-canceling headphones

• Ergonomic laptop stand

• Selfie Halo

• Wireless mouse

• 64-oz water bottle (somehow, it’s much easier to hydrate when WFH).

These items are a bit more affordable than the things in the Forbes article. Still, it poses an interesting question as to which is more important:

Things that help you work better from home or working in a better home environment?

What do you think?

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Do you take lunch poll results

While a small sample size, our poll revealed the following:

• 64 percent of WFH professionals take 15 minutes or less for lunch

• 11 percent take 30 minutes

• 26 percent take 30 minutes to an hour

Fuzzy math aside, it does explain quite a bit why WFH is not quite the day at the beach as many portray it to be.

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Inspiring quote of the week

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.”--Mark Twain

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Delete this app from your phone today!

After my last phone, I swore I’d never run out of space on my phone again. So, yours truly has been on a tear in eliminating the unnecessary. Here’s one you can eliminate TODAY: