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