Margaret Mahy Quotes

But I think we're going to have people who work from home a couple of days a week, three days a week, four days a week. And I'm perfectly comfortable with all that.

I work on weekends, but from home.

In theory, I absolutely love to work from home, in all its warmth and comfort, but have reluctantly been forced to confess that it's a total failure.

I'm always looking for ways that I can work from home with my home studio and stay busy. This is a great way to do it. Having a home studio has made projects like this a lot easier.

Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.

I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.

I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

I love that I can work from home and take my kids to school every day.

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

Working from home while caring for children seems impossible.

Millennials grew up realizing that they can get the job done without having to go to the office.

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.

In the current world, with work-from-home emerging as a new norm, there is a spurt in demand for security, deployable across multiple work environments.