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Day 11

As I have already written earlier, working from home is not new to me. However, in case this is still an unknown land to you, I recommend this video from the World Economic Forum to find your working routine:

https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/2771243113106884/

So, here is a short overview of my new usual working day at home office:

I normally get up about half an hour before my first call, get ready (no pajamas!) and start the morning with a little sun salutation. If you don't know what it is, here's how my yoga teacher does it:

Afterwards I make coffee which accompanies my first calls.

I now work only at the desk in my office or in the kitchen (depending on whether or not Jens has calls at the same time) to differenciate work and private life at least a bit. Here is a picture of my office :)

Often children are new participants in our telephone conferences, in my case I have to play with my cat during the first few hours of work, otherwise she will empty the contents of the trash bin on the floor or knock everything off the desk.

For several weeks now, my days have consisted solely of telephone conferences to collectively discuss and develop topics/projects. I feel already like my computer and headphones are slowly becoming my new body parts. Of course, also our technology systems are overloaded and Skype often strikes. So it always takes about 5 minutes to log in calls and I often have to guess wether the talk track should match the screen I see or I have a 5 minute lag in screensharing. Today evening, finally all systems gave up, which from the positive perspective made it impossible for me to work overtime.

We have 1-2 stand-ups with the team every day, where we also take some time for chit-chat. It is very important that no one feels alone at times when many of us are living alone.

As I am part of teams focusing on future of work and collaborative workshops, we are constantly testing exciting new ways to leverage technology to make our virtual meetings interesting and more productive.

I'm now really trying to keep a closer eye on not working for more than 8 hours.