To work from home, converting the kitchen table into the office is the easy part. Trying to pretend the world outside that catches your attention through the kitchen windows — with families biking and neighbours working on yardwork projects — is just a screen saver on a big monitor, is a little more of a difficult task.
House noise is also really different than office noise. Kids yelling, dogs barking, partners yelling or barking, vacuums whirring, TVs blaring ... toilets flushing. How strange it is to yearn for the ringing of phones, scraping of office chairs, clinks of coffee posts, glugs of water jugs and steady hum of office chit-chat?
Work at home. The last two words of that phrase make it sound easy. The first word one is where the trouble lies.
