Work From Home Resources

1. If you regularly carry your laptop back and forth from the office, get hold of a spare battery pack and keep it at home so you don't have to remember it every time you plan to WFH.

2. Make sure you have a few ways for people to contact you--such as a mobile, a landline, email and instant messaging--so if one connectivity mode goes down for a while, your colleagues will still have a way to reach you--and you them.

3. Understand how to structure your working day for the greatest benefit to you and your company--whether that means doing a few hours early doors, taking the kids to school and walking the dog, or logging on late at night to free up time during the day. If you are able to bring a necessary--or less stressful--degree of flexibility to your working day then you should be more dedicated to your work and feel more energized. Your employer should see that as a definite benefit.

4. Tapping away on a laptop is fine on a plane but when working from home make sure you have a full size keyboard and a mouse--and a monitor if possible, as well as a comfortable work space--your wrists/neck/eyes/back will thank you in the end.

5. Make sure friends, family and partners understand what working from home is about and that they appreciate it's not an 'available for chores and errands day'.