Ross Knight is a website analyst / consultant, social media enthusiast, Husband, Dad and a bit of a Geek (in no particular order).

My wife has started back to work after being on my maternity leave for the past year. Fortunately she has been able to stage her return and is working 3 days a week until Christmas at which point she will return full time. This means I am responsible for looking after our son a couple of days a week and so far so good.

I was a bit apprehensive that my work would suffer but if anything I now use my time more effectively and instead of logging on to check my social networks I now complete things in order of priority (social networks being a low priority – hence my lack of tweets). Surprisingly, I am also producing reports and quotations quicker than normal. I used to leave these documents for a few days after the meeting but I now begin working on them straight away as I cannot be guaranteed that my son won’t need a bit more attention than normal on the days I look after him.

It may sound strange, but now I have a little less time to work I am more productive and get more done – for now at least.