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Radio 4,4 mins

Working from bed: "I make two cups of tea to save going downstairs"

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Winston Churchill famously did it. And now thousands of us are doing it too. There are more than 16,000 posts on Instagram of people 'working from bed'. John Lewis says shoppers have been buying wedge pillows to prop themselves up in bed while they work. Sales were up 65 percent in December. Etsy is reporting a big increase in searches for laptop stands. Winifred Robinson finds out more. First broadcast on You & Yours, 18 January 2021.

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