My love-hate relationship with working from home

Abha Malpani Naismith
6 min readOct 17, 2024

As a budding entrepreneur and mum of 2 infants

After 20 years of going to an office almost every day, there is nothing I love more than working from home.

When I decided to quit my 9–5 and embark on this journey of entrepreneurship, my wonderful husband got the study ready in our home.

I have a wonderful work space, that faces a window. And a table that goes up and down so I have the choice to stand and work; and I have an ergonomic chair.

I never thought I would stand and work, but I do! And when I teach online, I do my sessions standing up, I feel better energy.

It’s simple but I love it.

I wake up, get the kids ready for school and drop them off.

I come home, have a coffee in my garden and then head up to my office to get on with the day.

The goal is to finish majority of my work before my son comes home around 1:30pm.

Of course, this never happens.

And this is when I start not loving working from home.

Here are the challenges I face working from home, and how I am trying my best to navigate them.

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Abha Malpani Naismith
Abha Malpani Naismith

Written by Abha Malpani Naismith

Communications professional. Digital strategist. Writer. Mum. AI enthusiast. Newsletter for working mums.

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