I've been working at home today, because somebody was scheduled to turn up and replace my gas meter so I had to be in. So a few days ago I carefully set aside some document-writing which I could usefully do without access to the company network, and I've spent the day sitting in my study doing that.

I had worried about my productivity in this environment: it seemed to me that with nobody else around I might easily succumb to the temptation to (for example) play computer games all day, or browse the web, or just sit on a sofa going uuurgh, or be otherwise unproductive.

But instead I've been stonkingly productive, in fact significantly more so than I would have expected to be in a typical day in the office. I suspect I was mostly overcompensating for the above worry, and not permitting myself a moment's rest ‘just in case’. I've finished all of the work I set aside, which is more than I expected to manage; and I'm exhausted. (Though that might also just be because writing documents is much harder work than it looks. Coding is pifflingly easy by comparison.)

It's probably a good thing most of my job can't be done under these conditions; on present showing, if I made a habit of working from home then I'd probably work myself to death in short order!