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Working from Home Stories
Case studies and experiences for information & inspiration
Home offices – the reality
206 months ago
Last week Paul Graves sent me this photo of his home office desk in response to the tidy ones he sees on my home office pages, and wrote this about his attitude to home working:
‘I love seeing all the home office pictures on workfromhomewisdom.com. There are some lovely, inspiring places that [...]
Home working in Greece
431 year ago
Today’s guest post is by Kalliopi and Diona, an electrical and computer engineer and freelance translator, two work-at-home Greek mothers who got to know each other online. Finding out that they were both working from home, they decided to join forces and create a blog, Mammas Work At Home, [...]
Good habits for home working
391 year ago
Today’s guest post is by Sebastien Powell of MessageBase, a telephone answering and virtual office service that helps any freelancer or small business look like a pro (and was one of the supporters of The BIg Jelly). Seb works from home himself and knows how easy it is to fall into bad [...]
Who needs a separate home office?
191 year ago
I’ve noticed that articles about home working usually insist you must have a separate workspace, with a door to close against distraction and to mark the distinction between work and home. Having spoken to many home workers with all kinds of home working arrangements, I don’t believe this is the [...]
Home working style page
71 year ago
Hurray, it’s finally time for A and I to reveal the new page on Home working style, which came about as a result of the huge response I received in comments and on Twitter to the post Home working wardrobe. There is a stereotype of home workers not caring about what they wear, but obviously [...]
Lightbulb moments
101 year ago
You know how sometimes you stumble upon some information or somebody makes a chance remark, and all of a sudden you have a completely different take on a situation or problem?
It happened to me recently when planning this month’s Frome Jelly and realising it fell on the day before my [...]
My home working story – Anita-Clare Field
131 year ago
Another answer to my question ‘How did you come to be working from home?’ comes from Anita-Clare Field, who is in the process of launching her training business Round Peg Learning and Development:
‘The primary reason for my decision to work from home was borne out of my desire to launch my [...]
My home working story – Graham Cornfield
81 year ago
We’ve been talking about the background stories of home workers and today Graham Cornfield of in-tandem Management Solutions Ltd recounts his recent conversion to working from home:
”My background is manufacturing (Leathergoods then Christmas Crackers) and Software Development – more than 30 [...]
How did you come to be working from home?
201 year ago
Graham Cornfield (what a wonderful late summer name!) made a remark in his comment on yesterday’s post (What makes home workers happy) that got me thinking. He said about his home working lunchtime – ‘Wow! I wouldn’t have dreamt of this six months ago.’ It made me realise we all have our own [...]






