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How to work from home? Useful tips to involve in.

16 Mar 20203 min read

Ida Kulawik

Ida Kulawik

How to work from home? Useful tips to involve in.

Due to coronavirus outbreak we’ve implemented home office working policy internally and everybody needs to organize its whole day schedule to make things done combining with caring about kids running around you and other stuff.

At the home office, however, I find that it’s easy for you to become your own worst enemy. Because when you’re not surrounded by coworkers, you’re free to drop those pesky inhibitions. At the home office, no one’s watching. You don’t necessarily feel that same peer pressure or communal obligation to get stuff done.

Below, we’ve compiled a bunch of great work-at-home tips and tricks from some of you. Check out if you use them already.

1. Get started early.

When you are working in the office, your morning commute can help you wake up and fell ready to work by the time you get to your desk. At home, however, transition form your pillow to your computer can be much more jarring. Believe it or not, one way to work from home productively is to dive into your to-do list as soon as you wake up. Simply getting a project started first thing in the morning can be the key to making progress on it gradually throughout the day. Otherwise, you will prolong breakfast and let the morning sluggishness wear away your motivation.

2. Choose a dedicated work space.

Just because you’re not working at an office doesn’t mean you can’t, well, have an office. Rather than cooping yourself up in your room or on the couch — spaces that are associated with leisure time — dedicate a specific room or surface in your home to work.

3. Focus on one distraction…like a baby!

There’s an expression out there that says, “if you want something done, ask a busy person”. The bizarre but true rule of productivity is that the busier you are, the more you’ll actually do. It’s like Newton’s law of inertia: if you are in motion, you’ll stay in motion. If you are at rest, you’ll stay at rest. And busy people are in fast-enough motion that they have the momentum to complete anything that comes across their desk.

4. Plan out what you’ll be working on ahead of time.

Spending time figuring out what you’ll do today can take away from actually doing those things. And, you’ll have planned your task list so recently that you can be tempted to change your schedule on the fly. It’s important to let your agenda change if you need it to, but it’s equally as important to commit to an agenda that outlines every assignment before you begin.

5. Use laundry as a work timer.

Doing your laundry is a built-in timer for your home. So, use the time to start and finish something from your to-do list before changing the load. Committing to one assignment during the wash cycle and another during the dry cycle can train you to work smarter on tasks that you might technically have all day to tinker with.

If you want to add something that you had invented and is checked out, please leave your comment under the blog post. We want to spread the best ideas among interests.

Magdalena Pliskowska

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Ida Kulawik

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