If you’re thinking of working from home, you may want to hear what our home-working veterans say first. Clare Dales and Helen Munro run businesses from their home studios, but both also create bespoke solutions for customers looking to combine their own home and work lives. Gordon chats to them about loneliness, successfully merging work and family life, and missing out on the water cooler moments.

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