How long does it take you to actually start work?

[Fashionesta]

I wfh full time. My working day is 9-4. I got back home at 9am after dropping DD. It is now 9.30ish and I am actually about to start work. I have done the following

Made coffee
Set up the second screen
Had issues logging on to my second laptop and had to email IT
Find a pen
Tweet something relevant to work
Had to shut everything down to restart second laptop
Start a thread on mumsnet

Surely I am not the only one who seems to faff for a good 30 minutes before I even get going. I find it very frustrating and half of it always seem to be IT issues.

I dont really have a strict start time. We have core hours of 10am to 4pm so must be on for those times.

Wfh I usually switch everything on around 7.45am. I'll sort out a few emails and bits whilst the kids get ready for school. Leave at 8.15am to take them and back home by 8.40am. Make a cuppa, feed cats and then start work..

Some days I'm crazy busy, other days (like today) I have very little on so I have also gone for a 40 minute run and vacuumed half of the downstairs.

I think procrastinating is okay, as long as you do what's needed to be done & are not taking the piss..

Imo when WFH setting up is work. If you went into the office and your desk needed setting up it'd be work time. I start at 9(ish) but the first five mins are switching on/plugging in.

30 minutes is nothing. I can easily waste a good hour and a half before settling down.

I start at 7.45, therefore my pc is on and ready to start at 7,45

I work 8.30- 5.30. Arrive at work just after 8 and return computer on, usually working by 8.10. Often work through lunch and rarely leave my office before 6.30. I work for the NHS. and I never get anywhere near the end of my to do list!

@RuthW

I start at 7.45, therefore my pc is on and ready to start at 7,45

oooh get you

@Fashionesta

I wfh full time. My working day is 9-4. I got back home at 9am after dropping DD. It is now 9.30ish and I am actually about to start work. I have done the following

Made coffee
Set up the second screen
Had issues logging on to my second laptop and had to email IT
Find a pen
Tweet something relevant to work
Had to shut everything down to restart second laptop
Start a thread on mumsnet

Surely I am not the only one who seems to faff for a good 30 minutes before I even get going. I find it very frustrating and half of it always seem to be IT issues.

Other than the coffee and posting on MN everything you've written IS work as far as I can see.

I get to work around 7.45 (contracted to start at 8) fire up the laptop, make porridge (instant just add boiled water) and eat that while reading emails. First meeting at 8.

I work 8 to 4 and the two people who report into me work 9 to 5. I always get online just before 8, because I get so much done in that one uninterrupted hour before they log in.

I'm fine in the morning, it's the afternoon slump for me! I do 9-5, wfh. I'm logged in and responding to emails at 08:59 and working pretty much until lunch... After lunch come 2/3pm, I'm out! Faffing making coffee/snacks/washing up etc etc. I do get some more work done, but not half as much as I do in th morning!