[krisdol]

I get depressed cabin-fevery if I spend many days working from home. Going to a cafe, outdoors, or any change of scenery generally helps. I think part of it is that I've officially married my relaxing escape from the office with all the bad features of the office, and that takes a mental toll after a while.

I know others that do, but salaried or not, I'm a 9-5er and I don't degrade my hourly rate by putting in extra hours unless they're absolutely necessary for an infrequent crunch. For me, seeing colleagues that put in 15 hour days at soulless BigCo detracts significantly from the bigger salaries they may be getting.

Making my home the office is no different from making the office my home, as makes it feel like I never mentally stop working.

Plus they have better chairs and internet than I'd care to buy

[Beached]

"Making my home the office is no different from making the office my home, as makes it feel like I never mentally stop working."

How quotable, I found it hard to separate work and home while working at home, took me a year to get it right, but after 1 year of doing so, I've found a few tricks and with a bit of discipline, I have been able to completely build a wall between work and home even though they are the same place. I will say it wouldn't have been possible if my boss didn't also work from home and encourage it. If my boss expected me to keep up with emails and phone calls after 5:30pm, I would probably hate the home office.

[themartorana]

"Making my home the office is no different than making my office my home..."

Brilliantly said. Leave home for living your life outside of work. As much as I am my work in so many ways, being able to have a zone that is (usually) free of work is very important.

To me, anyway :)