Is your home causing WFH burnout?

Many of us have been doing it for nearly a year, but is our working-from-home anniversary one we’re that happy to celebrate? Or is your home office setup coming up short, far from conducive to work/life balance, even though initially it seemed the dream? We’ve all seen laptops balanced on ironing boards, spaces cleared on the dining table for workstations or the kids’ bedroom doubling as a meeting room on Zoom. But while they all work, these inventive solutions are far from ideal – and they can edge us towards what the internet is calling ‘WFH burnout’, where the boundaries between work and life have blurred beyond recognition. So what are we to do?

‘We need to create gorgeous spaces that we actually want to work in,’ says Holly Tucker MBE,), which supports small brands through the highs and lows of their business journey, and UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses. ‘It’s likely that we’re in this for the long haul, and that the world of work will have fundamentally changed forever. We need to make our working-from-home spaces somewhere we enjoy being in.’