Despite having to work under the strain of a global pandemic, the worldwide move to remote work strategies has its perks. Indeed, the flexibility allowed by distance based employment has given people much needed breathing space from the confines of their offices, allowing them to work from anywhere, just as long as they’re contactable and, well, get their responsibilities in order on time.
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However, with this increased level of freedom comes the caveat of having to deal with some unavoidable difficulties. Not having the advantage of seeing your team mates face to face and socializing with them might lead to feelings of isolation, for example. Another caveat is the fact that remote workers are less tied to structure (which is different from rules), thus they might not have the proper encouragement from their managers or team mates in motivating them and reminding them to take breaks or to remember to submit certain projects on time. It’s really up to their own initiative in this case, and that can be frustrating for some people in properly and manually maintaining their own work-life balance. Fortunately, we have 4 major tips in helping the average remote worker find their inner Zen in perusing a healthy and stable WFH employment gig:
- Set Schedules and, Most Importantly, Stick to Them.
A big reason why remote workers sometimes work in disorganized and scattered timeframes is that they lack the structure of office life. Because they are able to work flexibly, their rest periods occasionally show up in the middle of hours that they would otherwise be knee deep in work. This is not to say they don’t do the work, of course most of them do. However, having a scattered timeframe such as this often results in remote working employees completing projects well into the night. This, for obvious reasons, affects one’s ability to plan out their day in sync with, perhaps other people within that individual’s social circle.
Therefore, getting up and working consistently and during the day will leave remote workers plenty of time to rest and spend time with their family during later hours. Of course, this is only a single example of the many schedules that could be suited to an individual remote worker’s personal life. If you are a remote worker, find out the best schedule that fits with maximizing your free time and family time, and (now here’s the hard part) stick to it.
- Utilize Remote Work Tools to Make Your Schedule Clear
Currently, we live in a time especially geared towards remote working; there are more people engaged through this means of employment than you might think. Evidence of this, besides the actual statistical data, can be found in the number of tools available that support distance based employment. Use these to your advantage. This goes for those individuals currently working remotely but not maximizing the tools at their disposal. For example, through Slack, one can easily notify their team members about their available hours. With this information, they will hopefully only be inclined to message you bout work within the stated timeframe. What’s more, is that you can also set your status from online to offline or vice versa to further solidify the application of your stated work hours. This allows you to more rapidly and comfortably settle into your predefined schedule.
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- Fit household chores into your schedule
There are many perks to working from home. Some of them are: the distance from your office space to your washing place isn’t that long at all. Indeed, we can easily fit in a couple washed dishes into our work breaks, and how about all that dirty laundry that needs cleaning?
The point being is that remote work allows you to be doubly productive at home, while being just as productive at work. It also helps that remote workers get an extra heaping of available time anyway because they don’t have to commute. Why not fill your break periods with some break backing labor! (The fun ones I mean: taking out the trash, ironing out your office shirts that you’ll never wear again, etc.)
- Work in an environment that fits your work
Despite working within the luxurious confines of your home, it can also mean that remote workers find themselves easily distracted. However, the itching need to start playing that old 15th century Stradivarius violin you’ve had lying around can be quelled, and quite easily. All remote workers have to do is work within an environment that mimics your actual office space. Well, it doesn’t need to be exactly like the office, just a place where you can be free of distractions and clutter.
