Doing my homework

Today was my first day of working from home. This will be a temporary arrangement for a couple of weeks while we move our office out of the longtime empty factory to a smaller office more in keeping with the remaining 7 staff (5 managers, 2 workers). I can connect to our European HQ in Belgium through VPN over broadband to pull a floating licence of ProEngineer and connect to the UK HQ for my e-mail.

Various Managers have been playing the "working from home" card for months now so it was a chance I couldn't pass up to sample the very same. I must say I actually surprised myself and how diligent I was. At my desk for 9.00 A.M. is actually an improvement. The time certainly flew in as I wasn't constantly interrupted by the normal office goings on like phonecalls, cups of tea, bitching sessions, gossip etc. This allowed me to immerse myself in the tasks in hand and concentrate on solving various design problems I've been wrestling with for ages.

It remains to be seen how I continue over the coming couple of weeks but as my efficiency improves I don't think there will be any loss to the company due to me working from home. All that remains is to figure a way to pay for the amount of electricity I'm burning in my home office running all this hardware. Hopefully it will become a regular occurrence to occasionally announce that "I will be working from home tomorrow" without raised eyebrows, knowing winks and phonecalls to the network manager to run a check on my login details and internet access history.

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