Northbridge Mass Adjusting to working from home

4/10/2020 (Permalink)

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Working from home can be a huge change for someone who has never done it before. Since a lot of you are new to working from home (including a few of us here at SERVPRO of Southern Worcester County) we figured why not help everybody out a bit and make a helpful blog post about being successful working from home!!

1) Communication is key! Stay in touch with your colleagues/boss. Send email updates every so often, maybe each hour with a list of things you've accomplished. This will also help keep you on track and accountable! 

Check in with your managers/boss. Maybe every hour! Prove that you're engaged with your work. Even though you're at home, give work all your attention just as you would in the office! Checking in gives your boss/es confirmation that you are working and helps keep you on track! 

2) Have a set work space away from distractions (like Netflix) Being in a separate room can help you maintain that productiveness you may have in the office. Especially if you have kids and significant others at home now. If you can't separate due to children (and significant others) make sure you communicate expectations for them for the day.  

      School work, chores, set a schedule and boundaries!! 

2a) Speaking of boundaries, there needs to be a line between relaxing and working areas. Don't work from the couch! Or your bed. This gives you a chance to turn on Netflix or your favorite show on TV. You might say you won't but you will get sucked in! 

3) Follow a routine, make a schedule. Even though you're home, your commute to the office is a little less, you should still get up at the same time as you would on a normal day, get dressed, make your coffee and get working!  

      Sticking to a routine will make this transition to working at home a bit easier on your body and mind. Make time for breaks, go for a walk around the yard, stretch your legs and body. Give your eyes a break from the screen too! 

4) While you're in the office, I'm sure you aren't on YouTube, browsing Facebook or Twitter at your desk. Stick to that at home! Don't let yourself get distracted by social media, Candy Crush or other things on your phone. 

Working from home means you have to be independent, responsible and manage to keep yourself on task all day! It will probably take a bit of getting used to, but making a schedule can help!! 

Make set time blocks for you to take a "browsing break" Not that we're condoning browsing social media at work, but if you do, only do it during a set time frame for a set amount of time! 

We know it's a tough transition from the office to the home office, or dinner table. We're all in this together! Working from home is helping to flatten the curve and stop the spread of coronavirus! 

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