With the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, many companies instructed their workforce to try converting their homes into remote work spaces, a theory that we as a people are yet to fully adopt – By Gerald Gekara.
The home office is totally different from the customary office, and with that comes a non-conventional arrangement of business-related issues.
1. Loneliness
Truly, innovation bears us the wondrous capacity to associate through our laptops, yet it denies us the fundamental social contact we need as people. It isn’t enough to chat on the telephone and call it contact.
The fix: Be key in arranging social time. Join exercise and mingling, make ordinary breakfast and lunch meetings with partners, and influence your adaptable work hours to chip in some place mid-week.
2. Family Time
Isolating work from home is a test. It’s anything but difficult to end up in the workplace getting ‘only one thing done’, before you realize someone wants help in putting up the curtains or taking out the trash.
The fix: Put aside committed office space at home. That way, when it’s an ideal opportunity to work you are completely occupied with that and when it’s an ideal opportunity to invest energy with your significant other, you’re 100 percent present with them.”
3. Interruptions
In between call and emails, one might make the mistake of wandering into the kitchen, while doorbells and barking dogs always go off during the most important conference calls.
The fix: Schedule a specific time into each day to tend to household tasks. If something feels urgent, say a leaking water pipe, call it a day and attend to the problem.
4. Keep your A-game as high as ever
As for dressing up, putting on clothes, and making an impression, Working from homes means you can settle into gym clothes and no one would know.
The fix: Routine is crucial; Try getting up, washing, dressing and putting on some makeup, so that you have a feeling that “I have an occupation, not a side interest.”
5. Being your own office director
The home office is an all-in-one shop which means that everything from billing and expense reporting, to travel planning and technology falls in your lap.
The fix: Consider addressing small management duties during unproductive time. Say, fill invoices, shop for what you may need, and maybe reconsider sorting out your office arrangement.
