In the coming weeks, as the coronavirus continues to spread and with authorities taking steps to protect communities, more people – and perhaps yourself – will be asked to work from home. As someone who has done it for 13 years, I thought I shared some tips on how to do it better.
The first thing to remember before we get to that advice is that homework is not a paradise at one time, despite the conditions. While it has its elements – wear what you want; no transportation! – They also have their own unique, long-term challenges when you're stuck at work at the same place where you sleep.
It's lonely. Time may blow by you. It is harmful to your health, both physically and mentally. Your personal care can suffer.
These tips, of course, will be about minimizing the effects of those challenges, while at the same time keeping you happy (or at least deep) enough to continue deceiving / deceiving others that you are a working person.
One last thing: I'm not a doctor, or a practicing physician. While some of these tips (like workout sessions) use hard scientific evidence, many of them are anecdotal, and should be taken more as I share what worked for me and my colleagues, not something that will definitely work for you or your work situation.
1. START BREAKS
It sounds crazy th at you need to be reminded not to work, but physically the office / work environment is always distracting, calling you to everything from meetings to free cake. At home, virtually all such distractions are removed. It is incredibly surprising that you find yourself staring at the library for hours without having to move.
This is it's bad your body in all kinds of ways, from blood circulation to muscle health. So every once in a while, get off the screen. Stand up, walk, find your arms and legs moving. Set the timer on your phone if appropriate, just make sure that once every hour or so leave your seat / bed for a few minutes.
2. DO NOT WRITE AT JAMAS
One of the first things people ask when I tell them that I work from home, and one of the first things you can think of when you are instructed to do the same, is, "oh yes I will spend the rest of my day in my pajamas". Don't do it. At least for the first day. Once I understand it, pajamas are made for sleep, not for everyday wear, and they will start to smell pretty fast. They are also not surprisingly well located inside.
No one is asking you to wear a suit and tie in your living room, but try to remember to at least put on some kind of formal, daytime outfit. Personally I like athletic wear (a great track like the Nike Tech Fleece in winter, or soft sweat-pants like running / gear for summer), which is usually the most comfortable thing to sit there for hours on end.
Aside from the self-respecting aspect of this, it also includes some general things I will get into in a moment.
3. WANT TO MAKE OUT YOUR PERSON
Here, ironically, is one of the easiest things to forget about when you should not leave the house. Many of our workouts, from brushing to brushing to shaving, are built on the fact that they should find out ready for some time to get out of the house work (or school). When that process is gone, it can be surprisingly easy to get under the fear of inactivity. That's too bad, so please don't do it. Even if you are not allowed to work for a week or two, when it comes to personal hygiene, pretend that you are. That includes brushing your hair.
4. DESCRIBE THE WAY
Many of the above points have their genesis in the same thing: working from home removes so much of our daily routine that it can be difficult to change your life to deal with it without it. When that happens, the creative moment is yours. Set your alarm for a specific wake-up time. If you don't have time to start a limited task (I, for example, start at 8am Mon-Fri), do it yourself and stick to it.
As for all things that happen during the day, remember to eat and refresh yourself at regular intervals. I'm pretty sure I have breakfast before 7:30 so I'm ready for work. I make fresh coffee on the ground every day at 10:30 am, partly because I need caffeine at that time, but mostly because the coffee-making tradition itself gets me off my desk, focusing on something unrelated to work and directly leading to a good 15-20 minute break.
I have lunch at 1pm, which is also when I go outside for exercise (more on that in a minute), then I drink coffee again at 3pm, and then at 5pm I'm done. This may sound like a bit of a sentiment milestones if you have never worked at home, but it is important to avoid time being a healthy and lost circular fog.
5. Create Conflicts (if you can)
The tendency in the idea of making your own process is to decide when and how to start. If your job allows you to do it, please try to stick to the defined beginning and end your working day. I know about my early days Kotaku Sometimes I worked uncontrollably 12-14 hours a day, couldn't walk during the clock and turn it off, and it had serious consequences for my personal and social life.
I found a great way to approach these boundaries to tie the idea of "working" to something or somewhere. Mine is now my office, but for you the next few weeks it might be your laptop, or some resources on your phone. Do not use them until the start of the task, and when the clock arrives at 5 (anytime!) Shut them down and leave.
It sounds small, but the boundaries between you and those devices or platforms need to be defined as those that are visible between your home and your office or the workplace. Otherwise your career will remain stressful behind you, and you have all kinds of side effects.
6. TEST
When I say go around in tip # 1, I mean it in the most basic concept. Stand up, slowly shake your arms, and head back to the kitchen. But you will need something self Exercise again if you are going to stay happy while working at home.
For example, I walk with my dog twice a day, ride my bike five days a week, and go to the gym three days a week. I also play soccer for the home team tournament, which also includes its fitness programs. Kotaku
This sounds like a lot, but it is the minimum that he and we need to stay healthy, because almost every time you don't exercise while you work from home, you're sitting on your ass in the house. And if you are sitting on your ass, there is a good chance of gaining weight (and developing issues with your condition / muscle mass).
Exercise while working at home is not just about staying physically fit, either. Cutting off from many traditional connections, working from home can bring you down sometimes, so exercise helps release enough endorphins to work.
Just make sure you are safe while doing so, depending on your physical level and the level of locking or parting you may have been alive at the time of posting. If you're allowed outside to use or ride, you're perfect. If you live in a densely populated area and would like to exercise indoors, that's not perfect, but in that case YouTube is full of home exercise videos to do.
7. CHECK IN TRANSPORTATION (IF YOU CAN)
Video calls can be painful for donkeys while you're in the office, but if you've been home for a week or so you may find yourself longing for them. Not only is it a lot easier (and faster) to chat about something in person, than with an email or service like Slack, but it's fun to get in touch with someone if you're around.
I have found over the last 10 years that working from home often makes me miss it everything ways to communicate with people, not just good ones some, because without them you start to get a little foggy, and you depend on the internet connection, and as we all know, internet communication is the even worse.
And no, your cat doesn't count as human contact.
8. LIVE!
This last tip is also very important. These are not ordinary situations that we are going through right now, and almost no one has a life experience of how to handle a situation like this. So while all of these are tips on how to stay on top of things while doing something like homework, each one takes revenge on the general advice to make sure you listen to local government and health care advice on how to reduce the risk of a COVID-19 contract, which you'll find linked below.
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