Working at the Office and at Home

Currently my employer pay for my scheduled work - also the part that I choose to do at home. Unfortunately my employer does not sponsor my home PC nor the software necessary to do the work - specifically edit Office files at home. Still I sometimes work on them at home - but I do not feel obligated to do so - especially since the impediments are quite significant.

Luckily we use Microsoft software at the Office and my home PCs free SUN software supports editing just about any file I bring home. I am not lucky enough to have an employer that will pay for a personal laptop for me nor pay for software for my private PC.

Well, to bring home an Office file for editing seems easy, but actually it is not. Whether I choose to use email-attachments or my private USB-Memory-pen is insignificant. Neither allows for any impulsive editing, since both mediums require significant planning.

Before leaving work - each day - I need to evaluate which files I can work on. Then I need to copy those files - to be able to work on them if my private time has an open space and I feel motivated to do so.

Time and time again, I faithfully take a copy of some files with me. At home the plans changes, and I never get around to edit the copied files. They mostly end up as wasted copies.

Sometimes the private time-plan changes and brings an openings where I feel motivated for editing a file. Too often; requiring a file that I did not bring home. Maybe I have it somewhere - in an older baseline. Usually it is not the the latest edition, or I can not be sure it is the latest edition.

The above mentioned limitations, the waste and the subsequent frustrations demotivates my pursuit of integrated work and private time. I sure hope this is aligned with my employers strategy.

Solving a possible integrated file editing strategy misalignment has many options: Groove, Collanos, VPN file share, SharePoint or KnowledgeTree just to name a few.

Using larger free USB-Memory-pens is not an option for the long run, because it will always require a significant manual labor - to take the pen with you home every day.