【厦门韦博英语】10个办法帮你找回职场空窗期感觉

It's been a long and dangerously relaxing break. What's the secret to returning to the fray as seamlessly as possible? Try these 10 tips

1. Ease in

You won't be used to a strong coffee first thing, or early morning socialising with people you don't care for. Above all, try not to achieve too much on your first day back at work; it's enough that you're there. Sit down at your desk with a weak tea and watch a couple of episodes of Homes Under the Hammer on your computer.

Did you leave a lot of work unfinished before you left for Christmas? Chuck it all out. That's 2012 business. This is 2013. If there was any point to that work at all, you would have done it last month. Don't put it to your boss quite that way.

Take your old Christmas tree into the office. Tell everyone you're taking it to the recycling centre in the afternoon. Surreptitiously decorate it during your tea break.

It's time to set aside all your old work-avoidance routines, and come up with some brand new ones. You need something you can continually check up on while you're supposed to be getting stuff done. Try putting a webcam on your cat.

For the first week you'll get hungry at odd times, possibly as a result of spending two weeks sitting on