Working from Home: Staying Sane and Staying Sociable
I was asked by the Society for Computers and Law to update my reflections, written 20 years ago, on the perils and joys of working from home. As I have shamefully neglected my blog of late, I thought I might also post this, slightly ruder, version here. A lot of tech has changed but, judging from some of the home-working tales I hear, a lot of the issues remain pretty much as they were in 1999 so this is a very lightly edited version of the original article with a virus-inspired postscript. I am a leading expert on the perils and the strains of working from home. Of course this is only because one of the key advantages of working from home and being the only person in the building is that you become a leading expert on practically everything – that is also one of the minor dangers. The major dangers arise from the effect working from home can have in making you mad, bad and really rather boring to know. I have worked from home for almost 30 years. While my work focuses on writi...