Working from home in 2024
Remote work has changed, after the pandemic. So many WFH veterans are now working near their home, rather than in it.
I’ve worked from home for more than 30 years.
Based on this experience, I wrote these tips about staying productive and sane working from home. They’re still relevant. But remote working has changed, in the past few years.
Before 2020, I was still fairly unusual. Now, working from home at least some of the time is the new normal.
But I’ve noticed a trend amongst my coaching clients — many of whom are freelance creatives who have also worked at home for years — for getting out the house, and working somewhere near home instead. They’re using cafes and libraries, co-working spaces, renting small offices or workshops, moving to a shed in the garden.
The landscape has changed, for remote work.
For starters, we’re less likely to be home alone when we’re working. A designer client recently told me that not only is her partner now working remotely 2–3 days a week, but he’s also commandeered her desk and office when he does.
“I’m not even sure how it happened,” she muses. “He started doing Zoom calls there…
