101 Tips for Telecommuters—Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family

46. The Happy Marriage/PartnershipGuide to Office Sharing

Many of your traditional office-bound colleagues are fairly convinced that telecommuters enjoy the best the work world has to offer—a decent wage, minimal commuting, independence, etc. If you happen to also share your home office with a spouse or partner who telecommutes, you'll be the envy of just about everyone you know (except those people who can't imagine that much proximity to a loved one). True, sharing an office with a life partner has lots of advantages in terms of time together, awareness of the ups and downs you each experience, and involvement in the challenges and rewards of each other's work. That assumes, of course, that you happily and productively manage the shared office ...