{"id":595,"date":"2007-02-26T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/when_you_work_a"},"modified":"2007-02-26T21:00:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T02:00:54","slug":"when_you_work_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"When you work at home, you don&#8217;t get sick leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/2007\/02\/jim_zumbo_objec.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/welcome_3.jpg\" title=\"Welcome_3\" alt=\"Welcome_3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, back to our regular programming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse, working at home changes many rules in the workplace environment.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you can call in to a client and tell them you are too sick, or too contagious, to show up for a meeting, but the work still has to be done on schedule and in most cases you don&#8217;t have anyone to turn over the tasks to.<\/p>\n<p>It is a rare self-employed consultant who can turn to a family member and ask, &quot;Can you flesh out this project schedule while I get a few hours of sleep?&quot; You may be able to get a little proofreading, or a beverage of choice, but that&#8217;s as far as it goes.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, you can work away until your head fills up and your wastebasket is full of used tissues, then knock off for a few hours of sleep until you are ready to work again and nobody is going to complain that you slacking.<\/p>\n<p>I have been doing this routine for the last 24 hours and while it seems arduous, it allows me to keep producing efficiently, if not consistently.<\/p>\n<p>I also find that the enforced breaks make me look at the problems very carefully and I try to work smarter, rather than harder. When I don&#8217;t have the stamina for a 8-hour design marathon, I try to see if I can break the task into more manageable pieces. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, I can. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, back to our regular programming&#8230; For better or worse, working at home changes many rules in the workplace environment. Sure, you can call in to a client and tell them you are too sick, or too contagious, to show &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=595\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1792,1801],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-9B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}