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@Dammit
A bit late to this, but I've been unofficially working from home for some time now (maybe a couple of years? I haven't really kept track). My work machine is also my machine, and I keep Teams, Outlook and Zoom open pretty much all the time, which means that what ends up happening is that I ramp down the amount of work that I do at around 18:00, but keep an eye on what comes in and will answer/do quick bursts of work up until I hit the sack at around 22:00.
I have to say I can't recommend doing this, and if I'd thought about it I'd probably have made a point of exiting the work applications at knocking off time, but equally it does help me manage my workload as otherwise (I'm responsible for EMEA+APAC directly, and indirectly the Americas, which covers all timezones) there can be a pile of stuff to deal with in the morning - and I often have to go directly into back to back calls from 8am onward, so it's hard to balance the time against the work.
Still, I've made a rod for my own back, so don't do what I do.
I go to the spare room for calls, and when not on calls divide my time between the sofa, the standing desk pictured below, and staring into the fridge wondering how much cheese one man can eat in a day.
This week I've started trying to get an hour of Zwift in from 07.30, quick shower and then work. This also means that I'm in outside clothes for lunch (as opposed to jogging bottoms and a random T-shirt, which is my before-shower clobber), so going for my government permitted solo walk at lunchtime is more straightforward. It definitely makes a difference being showered and changed for work, instead of just drifting into it, and I support the view that getting up, having breakfast and so forth before cracking on with emails is a good idea.
I kind of drifted into WFH because I'm on calls for much of the day and I couldn't do that in a crowded and noisy shared office, and pre-C19 I travelled a lot, so it was easier to be at home between trips to the airport. I'm still pretty ambivalent about it, very easy to feel isolated, and you miss a big social aspect of the office that I don't find Teams etc makes up for.
On the flip side, once we come out of the worst of the C19 period hopefully we will make better use of the possibilities of remote working mixed with presence in the office.
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