Between benefit and mandatory - work-from-home

I am not a big fan of work-from-home. Not because I like to spend time in traffic, but because I like working in an office and to spend time with the team.

Nowadays, due to the Coronavirus problem, we have to work-from-home.

To avoid the alienation (as it can happen to myself), we can take some measures to facilitate our work and our professional relationships:

• Set up some objectives - like a ”to-do list” for each working day. In this way, every day you will feel motivated to work and achieve some objectives.

• Get dressed / make-up or hair as  you do when you work from the office. Keep this routine to have a proper mindset for work.

• Befriend with a lot of online platforms - from solutions to upload in the cloud the documents to any platform where you can communicate with the team (eg. Skype, Zoom, etc.)

• Prepare your ”office”. Avoid working from the bad - you can’t concentrate there. And avoid working in the same room with the rest of your family - they will distract your attention.

• Respect the working hours - in this way, you will delimitate what is work and what is personal time, even if they are in the same place. Don’t go to non-work appointments during the day (like to a doctor or shopping) because they will disrupt your work.

• Setup more online meeting with the team, for updates

• Use the camera - even if you don’t see each other face-to-face, it helps you to see online your peers.

What about you? In what way do you feel efficient when you work-from-home?

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