Finding the Balance: How to Leave Work when You Work at Home

Whether you are single or married with kids, one of the hardest things about working from home is figuring out how to separate your work life and your other life. Work is always right there, and it is so easy to pick up the phone and make a call, or to do just one more project for a client. If you have workaholic tendencies anyway, work can become your whole life when you work at home. It starts out innocently, with eating breakfast at your desk while you check your email…and before you shower or get dressed. But work can insidiously take over your life, until you find yourself going from bed to work and back to bed. The signs are: More