Unlike 9 to 5 ‘ers, the work at home professional’s productivity is results based. Back in cubicle-land, you were expected to hang out from 8 am to 5 or 6 pm — no matter how you felt or what you accomplished. The measure was how many hours you put in. Not necessarily how effective you were.

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“Live/Work housing offers end to commuter blues.” I recently saw this headline in the local business journal. As you can imagine, I got a big chuckle out of it. As a veteran virtual worker, I know better. If you work from home 3 or more days a week, you have probably become familiar a distinctive set of challenges I call the work at home blues or WAH. WAH or waaaaah! as I say it, refers to the unproductive work habits commonly cultivated by the isolation and detachment that remote workers experience when working from home.