It happened to me.
Working from home was OK at first. I'd start at 7.00, knock off for a couple of hours over lunch and go to the gym, start again at 3 and finish at 5 or 6. I'd set myself proper deadlines and report back to the client weekly. I was loving it.
After 18 months or so it all started to go wrong. I started to get really demotivated working on my own. I'd spend all day surfing. By Thursday I'd have a week's work to do to report back to the client on Friday. I started doing that semi-deliberately in order to incentivise myself otherwise I'd have done nothing at all.
The only way I broke the spiral was by going back to the client's offices for a couple of months. After that I split my time 50/50 - I never did as much work at home as I did when I originally started though.
Working from home was OK at first. I'd start at 7.00, knock off for a couple of hours over lunch and go to the gym, start again at 3 and finish at 5 or 6. I'd set myself proper deadlines and report back to the client weekly. I was loving it.
After 18 months or so it all started to go wrong. I started to get really demotivated working on my own. I'd spend all day surfing. By Thursday I'd have a week's work to do to report back to the client on Friday. I started doing that semi-deliberately in order to incentivise myself otherwise I'd have done nothing at all.
The only way I broke the spiral was by going back to the client's offices for a couple of months. After that I split my time 50/50 - I never did as much work at home as I did when I originally started though.
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