Making Working From Home Work For You- 5 Tips

Kaajal Gunputh Kaajal Gunputh Mar 24, 2020 694 0

Making Working From Home Work For You- 5 Tips
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 While most people who usually work from home consider themselves as the luckiest, working from home when you’ve been used to working in an office environment is a major adjustment. As most of us are being compelled to work from home during this crisis, we thought we would share some of the things to help make your work from home routine more productive. We hope these tips can help you stay healthy, happy and able to do your best work amidst great uncertainty and change.

Say Good Morning & Goodbye

Try to create a feeling of camaraderie while not arriving into the same physical space, send your colleagues or your team a small short voice note to say good morning at the start of your working day. Even if you have a morning team meeting scheduled first thing, a quick hello ensures you start the day on a positive note. Plus this also signals your brain that the work has begun-particularly useful if you are used to a commute to your office. Do not forget to send a goodbye note at the end of the day. This will prevent your afternoon drifting into your evening and you will get a clear transition from your work time to your self-time.

Try Different Tools

There are many and many excellent free tools available to make collaborating remotely quicker, easier and more efficient, The best tools for your team will depend on the nature of your work, a tool that works for one team might not work out for you. Try different choices and stick to the one that works for you. If your new project management app still looks confusing after two weeks, maybe you should try another one.

Create a Routine & Embrace the Benefits

Absence of your regular routine of going to office, days spent working from home can feel unstructured, By creating yourself a routine and sticking to it, you’ll be more likely to move through your day without getting distracted, bored or overwhelmed. Set times for phone calls, admin tasks, lunch breaks, coffee breaks and put these in your calendar. One of the biggest positives of working from home is the flexibility to fit your routine around other parts of your life, so make the most of this as much as the current situation allows. Listen to a podcast or put laundry on while you work, call a loved one at lunch time or take a break to stretch a bit.

Get Some Fresh Air

Most of us are likely to have been travelling to and from office in our daily routines. Whether you sit on a bus or train, or you drive yourself down to office or you walk to your office, your brain was getting daily opportunities of fresh air. Make sure you don’t lose on that while working from home. Taking a short walk round the block or the local park, after your breakfast before sitting down to work can be a great way to boost your energy for the day ahead. If it’s not possible to go out at the moment, open up your windows and allow fresh air to enter as you relish a warm coffee to have the same effect.

Separate Your Space

If at all possible, try to work from an area of yoru home that you can then move away from at the end of the working day. If you have a spare room or a study room, limit it to be your working area or use your kitchen table as your working area. This will be of great help at the moment where many of us will be spending most, if not all, of our time in our homes.

 

Over the coming weeks and months it will be more important than ever to be patient and compassionate with one another while we face the many unknowns and uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic. This includes with our colleagues, team mates and employees. With children at home, relatives to care for and health and livelihoods at stake, many will be finding themselves in impossible situations.

Do you have experience of working from home? How do you make it work for you? Or, if you’re now doing it for the first time, what are you finding difficult?

Please leave a comment and our team will get back to you directly. With conversation and digital connection we can support one another through the challenges ahead.

 

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