Adjusting to Working at Home

I have been working remotely from outside my office for the past couple of weeks. I have never had a job where I could do this, so I figured that there would be some adjustments I would need to make mentally to work from home every day. Definitely hit that one on the nose.

• I have created a computer set up which is similar to the layout in my cubicle back at home. I'm using a 26" LCD TV, connected to my laptop computer. My laptop is a Mac, so it is setup with a trackpad for a mouse and a smaller keyboard. Since I work in accounting, I am used to using a full size keyboard with keypad, and a 2-button mouse to do a lot of my work.I was able to get a keyboard (with keypad) from my father-in-law, and a 2 button mouse to connect to it. I had tried using the laptop keyboard and mouse the first couple of days, and realized just how much I needed those features. My printer is connected as well in case I need to print something here.
• While this helps that I don't have to take time to "get" to my office, it has blurred the dividing line between my work and my home quite a bit. It has helped that I have to login to the network for my company to have any access to my work, but it is still different.
  
• Working from a home office causes another issue I had not expected. By not being in the office with my co-workers, there is very little inter-personal interaction during my day. While a lot of the conversations I was having with my co-workers were not always particularly intense or necessarily even work-related, there's something to be said about the day-to-day pleasantries that happen when you see someone 5 days a week. This I expected. The part I didn't was how fast it would become noticeable to me.
• The thing I have found most interesting is the fact that, in spite of all the distractions that exist at home that are not available at an office, I find that my productivity doesn't seem to suffer particularly. I am still getting the same amount of work done, and in the same timeframe as before. If anything, I actually feel like I am more aware of lapses in productivity, and work through them sooner. It's been rather strange.

We will have to see how these adjustments go as more time progresses.