Do you ever WFH in bed?

[Spocyfriedchi]

I have an office job. All I need is my laptop. Yes a big screen helps, but my job is mostly excel and then some word and PowerPoint.

Someday (especially when I have anxiety) I like working in bed and feeling all cosy.

Does anyone else do this?

Not usually as I prefer 2 screens. But I recently stayed in an hotel and worked from bed all morning in my pyjamas. I rather enjoyed it. No scheduled meetings thankfully.
PS I too am reasonably senior and graded 'exceeding' in my annual appraisal. If we're playing that game

Surely it TOTALLY depends on your job. If I'm doing some long winded Photoshop for hours on end and it's a freezing winters day you bet I'm cracking out the tray table out and putting the radio on.

Not me. I find it far too uncomfortable. I need to be at my little desk, on my laptop.

Absolutely. Doing it right now in fact! (well, in between mumsnet 'breaks'😂

I can't do it during the day in the week because my job requires face to face the whole time but in the evenings and at weekends/in holidays then my bed is my office of choice, always!

It's probably a terribly bad habit!

Bit harsh! I accept it’s not for everyone and obviously if you’re in regular teams meetings it doesn’t work, but in some jobs I’m sure it would be perfectly possible to work in bed from time to time without it affecting your output. It’s nice to be up, clean and ready, but I don’t see how these things alter your ability to operate a computer.

FYI I don’t work from home, but I don’t look down my nose at those that do either.

Never. Work is fully dressed and at my desk (WFH full time), I need to be fully present and presentable for Teams calls.

Yes it’s the most comfortable place!

God no! Bedrooms are for sleeping I would be out like a light 🕯️

Only when I had covid

I do know what you mean re the anxiety. I can generally manage anxious feelings much better than I used to but sometimes it unexpectedly ramps up and I find it hard to get going and feel a bit paralysed. I find working on the laptop in bed is a good way of me breaking this freeze feeling

No, I need to be alert to work and bed is just all wrong for that. But fair play to others if it works for them.

Absolutely agree. Have never and will never work from hold either from bed or without being properly dressed and in professional work mode

I did when I was pregnant, during the pandemic. Only for a few hours as I do like getting up, washed and dressed even if I couldn't go anywhere!

If I worked from home everyday, I absolutely wouldn't. I would need to be up separating home from work. I wouldn't want my bed to be associated with work and I don't like being in bed when it's not bedtime.

Then again, I don't ever want to work from home. I like to come home, not stay there all day.

I agree it totally depends on your job.

I occasionally do, and I particularly resort to my bed when I have tasks that are trickier/ require me to focus, and for content writing. It blocks out the distractions and feels like a treat to get through the next tricky bit of work. I take a cup of tea and give myself xx minutes of focus time to get it done.

It really works for me! If I was a sales person on the phone to customers and needing to be energetic, I wouldn't.

Only when I'm ill! It's not good for my back/shoulders and doing it regularly would cause me problems.

No, I’ve never done this. The closest is checking emails on my phone when I’m unwell in bed.

I couldn’t be very productive from bed but more importantly people video call me unexpectedly and I have to call people. Half my day is Teams meetings. That obviously doesn’t work from bed 😀

I have very occasionally worked an hour or so in bed in the morning, but only to do a few emails. It's usually been because of feeling rough/ having a bit of a cold etc. and only when I have no meetings.

@Spocyfriedchi If you are working in bed because you are feeling so anxious that you can't get up, you'd probably be better taking some time off to focus on finding ways to address that level of anxiety. It sounds quite severe.

Yup! On a cold winter morning… Ah! Nothing better.

In the winter? All. The. Time. I write for a living and so it's rare I need to actually speak with anyone during the time I choose to work. Any meetings I hold are done from my dining table, however I find when I'm under my cozy duvet, with electric blanket on and phone off, I simply plough on through what needs to be done. If I'm trying to write in a less cozy atmosphere, I find myself making excuses to get up and find something more interesting to do.

No - my job is stressful so I really wouldn’t want that vibe in my bed

Never. I'm always changed and ready. I consider that unprofessional in my line of work but if your work place don't mind I don't see the problem.

It does massively depend on your job, your skills, and your attitude to your own work-life balance. No meetings, just admin, then if you get as much done from comfy bed instead of a more established place, which I think many prefer from all sorts of reasons, then fine. If in front of others, then I am going to go for an "absolutely not", most I work with have travelled to get there, and working from home is an absolute blessing, and I have been lucky to have that a couple of days a week. On a similar vein, even if working from home, I find that if I get up, and do the basics, so up early for the working day, washed and dressed, sat at my PC in "work mode", it is so much better. Also depends whether you see work as a "career" or a "job". I recently had a meeting with "new" someone who was working from home, and was in PJs and pulled a dressing gown on. She might be absolutely brilliant at what she does and time will tell, but it made me think bad of her, and now she absolutely has something to prove. Hope this helps.

Oh how nice for you.

Completely agree with this. I wfh full time, and I only ever work in my office.

When I first started wfh during lockdown, I had to work sitting on my bed, and it made me hate my bedroom. Never again!

Gosh no, I'd fall straight to sleep!