AdNews last year launched the WFH Diaries during the depths of the fallout from the pandemic, a way of sharing how people managed their days.
This time, with lockdown running again, we're asking for a run down on how everyone likes to start their day working from home. Some dress to impress, others slip on the t-shirt. And everyone has their own way to carve the day into manageable chunks.
Jasmin Bedir, CEO, Innocean Australia:
I’ve never been a morning person – and I’m particularly not one in the middle of lockdown.
For me, the only way to start the day is with coffee in bed reading the news from around the world, checking in on Twitter before I wheel myself out of bed and into my active wear. Why am I in active wear? No idea really, as I’ve never been more inactive than during this lockdown. I guess it feels strange to sit in high heels and jeans at home, so I’m rolling with it.
Around 8.30am the calls and message alerts inferno begins. Teams, Zoom, What’s App, texts and phone calls. I tell my team to make sure they get breaks and get some vitamin D and check in on each other to make sure everyone’s okay.
Practising what I preach seems unnecessarily hard, but by lunch time I mostly manage to escape for my own mental health break which usually involves walking my dog Herman along the water’s edge in Fairlight.
Then it’s back to more screen and meeting time until it’s time for some real exercise in the early evening. Mostly for mental health reasons but also to keep physically fit, I usually spend 30-60 mins exercising per day. Either in my front yard or on the roof top of my local gym.
For me it’s a form of meditation.
After that it’s dinner and family time, before I return to project work. Some evenings are reserved for my side gig Fckthecupcakes fighting misogyny in our industry: connecting with our committee members and checking in on updates on our initiatives or writing content.
I finish the day off with whatever I’m currently bingeing on, like Dr. Death. or a great book, I’m currently reading The living sea of waking dreams by Richard Flanagan and I can’t put it down.
Lights out at 10.30 - before that cycle starts all over again….
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