Don’t forget that working online from home is work. A freelancer doesn’t have an extra eight hours to spend playing with your child or making dinner for the whole family. Yes, you save time on the road, but you’re not devoting yourself to running a household. Work should not be mixed with household and personal activities. Only bloggers show how they go to the store to store, walk with the kids, or make soup, getting big royalties for it. Real-life is different.
It is important to remember that the result that you have planned for yourself, and the process directly depend on each other. If you organize your work responsibly, you will receive a predictable reward.
The most important thing to do is to fix the working hours. Not only your manager but also everyone who lives in the apartment should know about it. Otherwise, you will not be able to build a successful work process.
In today’s post, we will be looking at how you can master time management when you are working from home.
Many companies require the mandatory presence of a specialist online at certain times. During this period, you will not be able to work on the project and close the set tasks, because in the online period there are a lot of incoming e-mails or a zoom conference with colleagues. Consequently, the schedule should indicate the intervals when you answer emails or phone calls.
During this time, it is quite possible to be distracted by household chores. But there are fixed hours in which no one should bother you with even trivial requests.
The business routine should be separated from the household, protect everyone involved in the process and the household from it. Don’t think that only singles will find it appropriate to work from home. There are advantages and disadvantages to living alone as well as living with someone.
If you are your boss, there is a serious test of self-management. Just imagine that no one controls you, no one is looking into the monitor and no one is telling you off for aimlessly wandering through online shopping sites.
With the second option will have to negotiate with a partner or children and explain to your home where you work. You’re not just flipping through photos on social media, you’re posting selling texts and you cannot help writing papers for college to your child. YouTube helps with research, not entertains with clips. Relatives need to accept that you shouldn’t be distracted and watch what you’re doing.
You can drink coffee, take sketches, walk around the apartment, read, watch video reviews. Whatever you do during office hours is your business and your responsibility. You solve business issues so you don’t have to come back to them later. You can’t break a deal and work when you promised to do other things. Otherwise, those around you won’t want to keep their part of the agreement and will look for maneuvering options.
The Importance of having a Break at home:
Occupational health regulations require that breaks at work be regular as well as regulated. In the office, the rest schedule can be floating, with colleagues substituting for each other and going out for lunch at any moment they can spare. But at home, especially at first, it’s best to stick to a strict schedule.
With a full day at work, provide yourself with three 15-20 minute breaks and one long break of 30-60 minutes for a hot lunch. You spend 8 hours at the computer, so add time spent on rest to your required work hours. Take a break, take a walk, stretch your legs, clear your head, and your efficiency will increase dramatically.
We’re all different, so there’s no one-size-fits-all recipe. Some people want to immerse themselves in the process for a few hours, while others feel tired without regular rest. Remember the cardinal rule of the game: breaks are important.
The above factors form the business rhythm. The sequence of work weekdays and weekends are large intervals, work hours and breaks are small. It’s important to move rhythmically; this will help you in the medium to long term. Everyone has vacations, we get sick, and we take a forced break. But the clearer and more consistent you are with your rhythm, the better you do for yourself.
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Nirmal Sarkar is a Biotechnologist from the city of Joy, Kolkata. He is the founder of this blog and covers a wide range of topics from Gadgets to Software to Latest Offers. You can get in touch with him via nirmal@hitricks.com
