So, I only have limited direct experience with this topic, as I'm active-duty military and a major chunk of my day-to-day work requires access to classified information, which just can't be done from home really. During the height of the pandemic, when my command was trying to minimize the number of people present in the building, I did …
So, I only have limited direct experience with this topic, as I'm active-duty military and a major chunk of my day-to-day work requires access to classified information, which just can't be done from home really. During the height of the pandemic, when my command was trying to minimize the number of people present in the building, I did some "working from home" that was really just doing limited amounts of administrative work (personnel fitness reports, awards, etc) and some unclassified online training. Otherwise, I was more or less just hanging out at home.
My sister, on the other hand, is a full-blown work from home machine. She does medical coding (ie, telling the insurance companies what a doctor did so the doctor gets paid) and she has a fully set-up home office. Having visited her and seen her in action with this, she is very disciplined about going into that dedicated room, shutting the doors, and focusing on work. When she's done, she comes out and doesn't tend to go in unless she needs to work some more. So, in that regard, she has some of the compartmentalization that you talk about that can sometimes go missing in a work from home environment. It also helps that she and my BIL don't have any kids (other than their dogs lol).
That's a discipline that's tough to do on your own, when you aren't being forced to. I do find that my work, with its flexible and irregular flow, is a good fit for my own working style. I don't know that I could maintain that discipline with a corporate job that had a strict workday.
So, I only have limited direct experience with this topic, as I'm active-duty military and a major chunk of my day-to-day work requires access to classified information, which just can't be done from home really. During the height of the pandemic, when my command was trying to minimize the number of people present in the building, I did some "working from home" that was really just doing limited amounts of administrative work (personnel fitness reports, awards, etc) and some unclassified online training. Otherwise, I was more or less just hanging out at home.
My sister, on the other hand, is a full-blown work from home machine. She does medical coding (ie, telling the insurance companies what a doctor did so the doctor gets paid) and she has a fully set-up home office. Having visited her and seen her in action with this, she is very disciplined about going into that dedicated room, shutting the doors, and focusing on work. When she's done, she comes out and doesn't tend to go in unless she needs to work some more. So, in that regard, she has some of the compartmentalization that you talk about that can sometimes go missing in a work from home environment. It also helps that she and my BIL don't have any kids (other than their dogs lol).
That's a discipline that's tough to do on your own, when you aren't being forced to. I do find that my work, with its flexible and irregular flow, is a good fit for my own working style. I don't know that I could maintain that discipline with a corporate job that had a strict workday.