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WeвЂ™ll email or message each other frequently, and come together only towards the end to workshop the final product. WeвЂ™ve got better at agreeing on a structure of a project, or a content outline, and working independently. My US colleagues now know that they can work on something to the end of their work day and hand it off to me to pick up while theyвЂ™re asleep. But if youвЂ™re in an internationally distributed team (4 locations, 4 time zones) you learn to make that time difference work for you. The in office meeting culture forces a certain structure to our day. This has been a year of forced experimentation so what have we learnt? And my real office is close to Schiphol, so extra convenient for emergency city breaks once we can have those again. The one downside, IвЂ™m isolated, I miss talking to colleagues face to face once in a while so I am looking forward to being together.

Location, IвЂ™m closer to good coffee when I work from home.

I like to flex my work day to be available for calls to the US, so generally work to 7pm my time.

My direct colleagues and my boss are in three other countries so they donвЂ™t know where I am.

I work with people with good digital skills.

Almost of my meetings are multi-location.

When I made the decision to be on a mostly work-from-home pattern I thought hard about what would work best. IвЂ™ve been 100% work-from-home for more than a year, I had lunch with some colleagues last September but I havenвЂ™t had a face to face meeting with colleagues since 5 March 2020. I hear people talk of being вЂњzoomed outвЂќ, and itвЂ™s true that after a year of working from home and dealing with a lot of uncertainty weвЂ™re all tired. BarclayвЂ™s chief executive pointed out that it becomes harder to maintain collaboration and company culture if people are working from home.

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Facebook is re-opening offices at lower capacity, with a plan to reach full capacity by about September. Twitter is happy for people to work at home. Google is limiting its work at home option to 14 days a year, and wants everyone back in the office by September.

My company has been very good about employees wanting to continue to work from home, but other companies are taking a different route. Late last year we were asked what our preferred work pattern would be, and I chose a вЂњmostly work-from-homeвЂќ pattern. At first I didnвЂ™t realise quite how long term this would be, and I definitely didnвЂ™t think it would be permanent вЂ“ and it could be. Like most people with an office job, which is most people working in digital, IвЂ™ve been working at home for year.