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  "title": "Back to working from home",
  "date": "2024-05-29T12:40:23.019Z",
  "excerpt": "One of the side effects of moving house has been that I'm now going to be working from home after being in a coworking space for the last two years",
  "tags": []
}
---

One of the side effects of [moving house](/post/an-interruption-by-way-of-moving-house) has been that I'm now going to be working from home after being in a coworking space for the last two years. I enjoyed having a dedicated office space for myself, mainly because I had the commute to separate work from home, and it was a separate space that was just about work, so fewer blurred lines. It doesn't make sense to be paying for a desk now that I have space to work from here, though.

My plan to retain that separation is to still do a "commute" by going out on my bike in the mornings and evenings for at least 30 minutes. I'm also planning on getting a little room divider to go around my desk so my wife can still pass through the room I work in without feeling exposed when I'm on a video call[^1].

On the plus side, I get to spend more time with my family, and I'm excited to do the school run again. I've also been able to put together a pretty nice desk setup that I couldn't really do in the coworking space due to size and background noise constraints.

![Photograph of my desk. Shows two monitors, one vertical attached to an arm. On the desk is an iphone being used as a webcam, a mechanical keyboard, a Macbook Pro, and a Yeti microphone](./src/images/desk.jpg)

[^1]: Which, given I pair program pretty much all day, is a given.