This is an interesting study in the evolution of the working day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I WFHed before, I’d catch up on overnight work stuff from the comfort of bed. I’d get up, shower, dress (I’d already walked the dogs at 5.30am) and would then assume my position at the laptop downstairs by 8.30am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There would follow a normal working day which I’d wind up around 5.30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s how the lockdown WFHing started out too, but things have gradually morphed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nowadays I still walk the dogs at 5.30am, I still go back to bed about 6.30am with tea and breakfast, and do the News and Twitter. And then I still catch up on overnight work stuff from the comfort of bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But in a change to published programmes, I go downstairs around 8.30am, boot up the laptop, take it back to bed and get stuck in to the usual routine of back-to-back conference calls meetings, project plans, finances and normal BAU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around 12.30\/1pm I go downstairs, plug the power pack in and carry on working. The dogs are pleased to see me and so are the humans (usually), but I don’t get much time to socialise with any of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Round about 5.30pm I take a break, go up for a shower, change, come downstairs and eat tea with the family. Then I might pick up the baton again and work until 7pm-ish (unless I have network changes, in which case I could finish anywhere between 10pm and 2am).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The afternoon dog-exercising is done by the family; I’m usually on a daily critical call at walkies time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The change in my routine, from getting showered and dressed in the morning to getting showered and dressed late in the afternoon has been gradual, but not exclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n