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Things you should know about the hard work of home working

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I've done many years of primarily WFH mixed with years of office work. My biggest problem originally with WFH was no manager present to "motivate" me, keep me honest, provide acknowledgment or notice that I was contributing. I compensated by using a few tools (along with many of the tips found in this discussion)

- activity log: what I was doing in 15 minute increments

- to do list, with perpetual archive; constant record of accomplishment

- email status report every Friday (or the last day of work for the week; sometimes this was required, other times I did them voluntarily)

This is more work than most people want to do however, it reduces the stress of worrying about performance, and makes it much easier to stop working after putting in 8 hours.

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